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World Birth Defects Day: WHO seeks to raise awareness, intensifies measure
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): The World Health Organization has defined birth defects as structural or functional anomalies (for example, metabolic disorders) that occur during intrauterine life. They can be identified during pregnancy, at birth and at times, detected only later. Birth d
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Well-functioning fat key to fewer old age ailments, suggests study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], February 22 (ANI): Fat tissues play a pivotal role in human health. However, with age, they lose function and can lead to type 2 diabetes, obesity, cancer and other ailments. High levels of lifelong exercise have the potential to counteract this deterioration, according
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Sleep apnea in pregnancy linked with increased post-delivery risk of hyper
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], February 13 (ANI): Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. A new study by researchers examined whether sleep disordered breathing (primarily obstructive sleep apnea) during pregnancy and in the years after deliver
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Study finds how liver and immune cells communicate while fasting
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Munich [Germany], February 9 (ANI): People often fast for losing weight. Sometimes they do it for better digestion. Previous studies have shown how fasting can influence the immune system to improve different chronic inflammatory conditions, but little is known about how immune responses mig
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Study reveals that metabolic adaptation delays time to reach weight-loss g
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Silver Spring (Maryland) [US], January 27 (ANI): One of the key factors that often disheartens women who begin their journey to weight loss is the time it takes for their body to show the results. A recent study has highlighted this issue and the reasons for it.
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Study examines development of fatty liver disease under healthy diet
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): A new study has identified two genes, previously reported to be involved in cancer, as regulators of the metabolic state of the liver.
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Study suggests lymphoma cell metabolism might provide new cancer target
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 9 (ANI): According to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell's Ithaca campus, aggressive and relatively common lymphomas called diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) have a critical metabolic vulnerability that can be exploited to trick thes
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Spicy substance from pepper gets into breast milk after eating: Study
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [UK], January 5 (ANI): A study has found that the taste and odour of active substances from garlic or coffee partly enter the mother's milk as an odour active metabolic product, while flavours from fish oil or nursing tea were of little to no significance.
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Study finds scale of prevalence of condition that causes type 2 diabetes,
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Birmingham [UK], January 5 (ANI): A research at the University of Birmingham has shown for the first time the scale of the impact of a condition associated with benign tumours that can lead to type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.
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Lymphoma cell metabolism may provide new cancer target: Study
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 4 (ANI): Aggressive and relatively common lymphomas called diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) have a critical metabolic vulnerability that can be exploited to trick these cancers into starving themselves, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Me
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Substantial weight loss may decrease risk of severe COVID-19 complications
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Cleveland [US], December 30 (ANI): A new study found that among patients with obesity, prior weight loss achieved with bariatric surgery was associated with a 60 per cent lower risk of developing severe complications from COVID-19 infection.
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Air pollution linked to fatty liver disease: Study
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 26 (ANI): According to a large scale epidemiologic study, links have been identified between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD).
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