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  2. Health among the Amish - Wikipedia

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    These disorders include dwarfism (Ellis–van Creveld syndrome), [1] Angelman syndrome, [2] and various metabolic disorders, [6] [3] as well as an unusual distribution of blood types. [4] Some of these disorders are quite rare, or unique, and are serious enough to increase the mortality rate among Amish children.

  3. Gene therapy for blood diseases - Wikipedia

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    The CARs are designed to recognize the specific cancer antigens and bind to them, allowing T-cells to target and attack the cancer cells. The genetically modified T-cells are administered back to the patients as a treatment. Leukemia is a group of blood cancers commonly found in children younger than 15 and elders older than 55. [3]

  4. Obesity and cancer - Wikipedia

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    The mechanisms by which obesity may increase the risk of cancer are not well understood, [1] but it is believed that the combined effects of the adipose tissue environment and the endocrine alterations that accompany it among obese people both interact to promote tumor initiation and progression. [9]

  5. Hematologic disease - Wikipedia

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    Hematologic diseases are disorders which primarily affect the blood and blood-forming organs. Hematologic diseases include rare genetic disorders, anemia, HIV, sickle cell disease and complications from chemotherapy or transfusions.

  6. Myeloproliferative neoplasm - Wikipedia

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    MPNs arise when precursor cells (blast cells) of the myeloid lineages in the bone marrow develop somatic mutations which cause them to grow abnormally. There is a similar category of disease for the lymphoid lineage, the lymphoproliferative disorders acute lymphoblastic leukemia , lymphomas , chronic lymphocytic leukemia and multiple myeloma ...

  7. Obesity-associated morbidity - Wikipedia

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    Death rate from obesity, 2019. Obesity is a risk factor for many chronic physical and mental illnesses.. The health effects of being overweight but not obese are controversial, with some studies showing that the mortality rate for individuals who are classified as overweight (BMI 25.0 to 29.9) may actually be lower than for those with an ideal weight (BMI 18.5 to 24.9). [1]

  8. Cancer rates in millennials, Gen X-ers have risen starkly in ...

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    Kaposi sarcoma (a cancer of the blood vessel lining and lymph nodes, only in men) Rates doubled or even tripled for some of these cancers, including kidney, pancreatic and small intestine cancers ...

  9. Plasma cell dyscrasias - Wikipedia

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    In hematology, plasma cell dyscrasias (also termed plasma cell disorders and plasma cell proliferative diseases) are a spectrum of progressively more severe monoclonal gammopathies in which a clone or multiple clones of pre-malignant or malignant plasma cells (sometimes in association with lymphoplasmacytoid cells or B lymphocytes) over-produce and secrete into the blood stream a myeloma ...