Fatal disease

Most people will tolerate greater risk from activities when the threat to life is offset in time from when the risk (and the benefit) is originally accepted. For example, people may feel worse (and usually accept less risk) about a threat of immediate harm (e.g., the blast wave from an explosion) than a threat of latent harm (e.g., an increase in the chance of getting a fatal disease following a 20-year exposure to a hazardous material, like asbestos), even though the risks may be equivalent. 

Which difference could account for the fact that a diver is much less likely to suffer from the bends if he breathes a mixture of 80% helium and 20% oxygen than if he breathes air (The bends is a painful, sometimes fatal, disease caused by the formation of gas bubbles in the veins and consequent interruption of blood flow. The bubbles form from gas dissolved in the blood at high pressure.)... 

Future basic research and clinical studies will show whether other inhibitors of nonreceptor PTKs may be as successful drugs as Imatinib for the treatment of fatal diseases such as cancer. 

Pernicious anaemia was a fatal disease first reported in 1880. It was not until 1926 that it was discovered that eating raw liver effected a remission. The active principle was later isolated and called vitamin B or cyanocobalamin. It was initially obtained... 

It is normally found in Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and much of Asia. It is a serious, often fatal disease of sheep. It can persist for up to 6 months in shaded animal pens, and for at least 3 months in dry scabs on the fleece, skin, and hair from infected animals. 

Evaluation of the data surrounding the death by physicians who are unassociated with the clinical trial lends additional credibility to the report and conclusions. Physician biases probably will strongly influence their decision regarding the association of a patient s death with the clinical trial, and this factor must be considered in interpreting their report. This is particularly true for developing survival curves in cancer or other often fatal diseases, when deaths unrelated to the disease or to the treatment are excluded from the analysis. 

We suspect that the magnitude of most of the associations noted between meat or coffee and specific fatal diseases are somewhat underestimated because Adventists may tend to underreport the amount of meat or coffee they use. If a substantial number of subjects actually use more meat and coffee than they reported on the Initial questionnaire, it would tend to make it harder to find the real associations, and the observed associations would tend to be weaker. Furthermore, we may have missed associations because subjects changed their habits during the 21-year follow-up period. All observed associations are based on meat and coffee use at the time subjects completed the baseline questionnaire (1960). Subsequent changes in these habits would tend to reduce or eliminate the possibility of finding disease associations with these habits. Failure to find associations, or detection of weak associations, could also result from the fact that our study population contains relatively few subjects who are very heavy users of meat or coffee, while it contains an abundance of subjects who have no exposure to these items. 

Ebola—Ebola hemorrhagic fever (Ebola EF) is a severe, often-fatal disease in nonhuman primates such as monkeys, chimpanzees, and gorillas, and in humans. Ebola has appeared sporadically since 1976 when it was first recognized. 

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which antibodies are made to proteins of the P cells of the pancreas. These antibodies gradually destroy these cells and, with them, the body s source of insulin. Untreated, insulin-dependent diabetes is a fatal disease. 

The elemental metallic form of beryllium is highly toxic, as are most of its compounds. When inhaled, the fumes, dust, or particles of berylhum are highly carcinogenic. Some beryllium compounds are toxic when they penetrate cuts in the skin (e.g., when an old fluorescent tube breaks). Beryllium oxide when inhaled can result in a fatal disease known as berylliosis (similar to, but more toxic than, sihcosis). 

The use of aspirin in children and teenagers with either chickenpox or influenza is contraindicated, since there is evidence linking the use of the salicylates in such diseases to Reye s syndrome, a potentially fatal disease accompanied by liver damage and encephalopathy. The mechanism by which the use of salicylates increases the chances for development of Reye s syndrome is not known. 

The application of G-spinor basis sets can be illustrated most conveniently by constructing the matrix operators needed for DCB calculations. The DCB equations can be derived from a variational principle along familiar nonrelativistic lines [7], [8, Chapter 3]. It has usually been assumed that the absence of a global lower bound to the Dirac spectrum invalidates this procedure it has now been established [16] that the upper spectrum has a lower bound when the trial functions lie in an appropriate domain. This theorem covers the variational derivation of G-spinor matrix DCB equations. Sucher s repeated assertions [17] that the DCB Hamiltonian is fatally diseased and that the operators must be surrounded with energy projection operators can be safely forgotten. 

Lack of Bj2 leads to pernicious anemia, an uncommon but potentially fatal disease if untreated. In 1926, Minot and Murphy discovered that raw liver could keep patients with the disease alive. The vitamin itself was isolated only in 1948. As little as 3-6 x 10 g is curative, and the large amounts of the vitamin taken by some fadists are therefore... 

Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which exists in different forms. Also refers to the fatal disease caused by the virus, AIDS... 

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