Sentences with phrase «also lead to blindness»

Every year around 100 million people contract Chlamydia infections, which are one of the main causes of female infertility and ectopic pregnancies and can also lead to blindness — especially in developing countries.

Progressive retinal atrophy, which also leads to blindness, is often found in Siberian Huskies.

Not exact matches

Interestingly, spiritual dehydration (life without the Savior) can also lead to irritability, pain, our spirits shriveling and shrinking, spiritual blindness and death.

Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of childhood blindness, and also compromises the immune system, severely reducing the body's ability to ward off infections, especially in children.

According to a smaller study, running also reduces the risk of macular degeneration — the leading cause of blindness in developed countries.

This could lead to a powerful regenerative approach to treat not only heart failure, but also brain damage, diabetes, hearing loss, and blindness.

KENILWORTH, N.J. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, proudly congratulates William C. Campbell, a retired scientist from Merck Research Laboratories, who was jointly named the 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine with Satoshi Omura for the discovery of avermectin, which led to Merck's development of Mectizan (ivermectin), a treatment for river blindness (also known as onchocerciasis) in Africa, Latin America and Yemen.

It has also been found to slow the decline of retinal function in those with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that can lead to blindness, according to researchers from Harvard.

It can lead to cardiovascular disease, and is also an important cause of kidney disease and blindness.

Lycopene has also been shown to help prevent heart disease and may slow the development of cataracts and macular degeneration, an age related vision problem that can lead to blindness.

Moving beyond «diversity blindness» also requires school leaders to examine any preexisting beliefs and attitudes about minorities that could lead to feelings of discrimination on the part of minority students or staff.

Pembroke Welsh Corgis can be afflicted with several eye problems including, cataracts, Progressive Retinal Atrophy which causes eventual blindness, and Retinal Dysplasia, which causes abnormal development of the retina and can lead to blindness also.

There is also the risk in humans for the larvae to migrate to the eye, this is termed ocular larval migrans, this could then lead to full or partial blindness.

Older pets also can suffer glaucoma — an increased pressure within the eyeball that's very painful and leads to blindness.

Several studies performed on various animals have also found that beta - carotene seems to protect against the leading causes of blindness, macular degeneration and cataracts.

If your pet is older, we will also evaluate for signs of cataracts which, if left untreated, eventually lead to blindness.

It can also lead to visual impairment and sometimes blindness.

(PLL) The Chinese Crested can also have at least two forms of progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) which can eventually lead to blindness as well.

Some Havanese breeders have reported that all cases of early - onset cataracts leading to premature blindness, and nearly all «other serious health problems reported in Havanese within the past few years, have been in dogs that also exhibit the symptoms [of chondrodysplasia].»

Ocular syphilis — that is, syphilis infections that spread to the eyes and can lead to blindness — is also on the rise.

For example, among women, research finds that masturbation is linked to higher self - esteem2 and, among men, it is linked to a lower risk of developing prostate cancer.3 There is also no evidence supporting the urban legends that touching oneself leads to blindness, hairy palms, or tiny genitals.