For example, in the case of deaths due to cardiovascular disease related to PM 2.5 exposure, research now suggests that adding even small amounts of pollution to relatively clean air boosts disease risks more than adding the same amount of pollution to relatively dirty air.
Besides the boost to disease mapping, the study also gives insight into the history of human migrations.
Ambitious efforts to catalog viruses across the globe may facilitate our understanding of viral communities and ecology, boost infectious disease diagnostics and surveillance, and spur new therapeutics.
The authors, whose study was published online September 10 by Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, note that many studies have linked insufficient sleep to high blood pressure and other factors that boost heart disease risk.
For example, national guidance was been developed on best practice for the treatment of common chronic conditions 2 and financial incentives have helped to boost chronic disease management in primary care.
Molecular genetics, for example, can enhance conventional breeding programmes, boosting the disease resistance of livestock in difficult conditions.
It was then that Steven Nissen, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, published in the New England Journal of Medicine an analysis of 42 clinical trials and concluded the drug boosted heart disease risk by 43% (Science 15 June, p. 1550).
The moderate intensity of the M training regime may have promoted an acclimative response in the poor swimmers, boosting their disease resistance to the level of the good swimmers.
