Sentences with phrase «cause muscle weakness»

This can cause muscle weakness, can contribute to poor appetite and itself can worsen chronic kidney disease.

EIC is a common muscle disorder that can cause muscle weakness in dogs, leading to a sudden collapse during otherwise normal puppy play sessions.

Heart disease, diabetes, hypoglycemia and liver disease can also cause muscle weakness.

Alcohol and smoking both cause muscle weakness and poor health quality.

Fatigue can cause muscle weakness.

Low dietary protein will increase your recovery time, cause muscle weakness, and suppress your immune system.

Spores of Clostridium botulinum bacteria — found in dirt and dust, which can contaminate honey — may lead to infant botulism and produce a toxin inside the body that can cause muscle weakness and breathing problems.

Peripheral nervous system complications of sepsis include two conditions, critical illness polyneuropathy and critical illness myopathy, which cause muscle weakness and inability to wean from a ventilator.

Botulism toxins can also cause muscle weakness, and may take a few days to show up.

Infant botulism can cause muscle weakness and difficulty breathing.

Native American myopathy causes muscle weakness from birth and other severe problems that can lead to death before adulthood.

In addition to determining that humans use chemosignals to attract one another, the findings could one day be used to create new therapies to correct hormone imbalances — most notably alternatives to cortisol replacement, which is used in treat maladies such as Addison's disease (in which the adrenal glands fail to pump out enough cortisol, causing muscle weakness, weight loss and low blood pressure).

SMA is a genetic neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness and one in every 10,000 children born is affected by it.

This causes muscle weakness, difficulty swallowing and breathing, paralysis and, ultimately, death — often just three to five years after diagnosis.

SMA is a genetic neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness.

Scientists at the University of Iowa have discovered the first example of a protein that causes muscle weakness and loss during aging.

In addition to the usual signs of kidney failure, hypercalcemia causes muscle weakness that may be misinterpreted as signs of hip dysplasia, spinal arthritis, etc..

Low blood potassium affects heart rhythm and causes muscle weakness.

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Botulin can lead to botulism — a type of food poisoning that can cause weakness, dizziness, double - vision, muscle weakness, and other side effects.

The illness causes progressive muscle weakness and brain damage.

His parents confirmed that Charlie had died in a hospice yesterday after a long battle with an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and muscle weakness.

Diastasis recti is caused by a relative weakness of the fascia between the two rectus abdominus muscles.

Hypotonia or «floppy infant syndrome», which may occur with or without muscle weakness and cause abnormal control of the oropharyngeal structures, resulting in weak or uncoordinated sucking

This type of muscle weakness can cause delayed gross motor skills and lack of coordination.

By supporting the abdomen, it can «turn off» the muscles underneath, causing increased weakness long term.

The study looks at data on 26 side effects from a trial of approximately 10,000 patients and suggests that cases of muscle pain and weakness are unlikely to be directly caused by statins, but may instead be due to the so - called nocebo effect, where the expectation of side effects can make patients more likely to report them.

TBIs can range from mild concussions — causing only a headache or temporary blurred vision — to much more severe injuries — causing seizures, confusion, memory and attention problems, muscle weakness, or coma for many months.

It is known that Zika can cause microcephaly, a severe birth defect in babies born to women infected with the virus, and Guillain - Barré syndrome, a neurological condition that can lead to muscle weakness and, in severe cases, paralysis.

Using CRISPR / Cas9, the Hamon Center team was able to correct the genetic defect in a mouse model of DMD and thus prevent the development of features of the disease, which in boys causes progressive muscle weakness and degeneration, often along with breathing and heart complications.

Continued smoking exacerbates physical disabilities and causes or contributes to many secondary conditions including respiratory and circulatory difficulties, muscle weakness, delayed wound healing, worsening arthritis and osteoporosis.

In his work with Sunderland players, Garbutt has concentrated on ankle weakness caused by muscle imbalances.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a debilitating disease that causes weakness and wasting of the muscles.

Even the weakness of old age may have an inflammatory cause: Ferrucci has found that inflammatory activity breaks down skeletal muscle, leading to the loss of lean muscle mass.

The study could inform new treatments for a set of conditions known as peripheral neuropathies, which are caused by damage to the cells in the PNS and can lead to extreme sensitivity to touch as well as numbness and muscle weakness.

MS causes symptoms such as muscle weakness and difficulty speaking.

SMA is characterized by hypotonia and muscle weakness, as spinal motor neurons are lost, and is caused by mutations in the SMN gene.

It is characterized by the wasting of skeletal muscles and caused by progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord; the disease leads to increasing muscular weakness, atrophy and premature death due to respiratory problems.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disease that causes the degeneration of spinal cord motor neurons and leads to progressive muscle weakness, atrophy and inability to walk or sit, and breathing difficulties.

The screening proposed here is expected to lead to novel strategies for the treatment of centronuclear myopathies by reducing muscle weakness caused by central nuclei in diseased muscles.

But they don't know why the lack of SMN protein causes spinal neurons to die, leading to muscle weakness in patients.

The mutation causes a loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and wasting of skeletal muscles, leading to increasing muscular weakness and loss of function.

For example, knowing that the SMA mutation causes debilitating muscle weakness, researchers might be able to target treatments to address that problem even if they don't have a therapy that would affect the motor neurons themselves.

Now, a new study sheds light on some of the suspected causes of muscle weakness.

«If we understand the cause of this muscle weakness, we can begin to look at potential therapies for treating it,» said Patrick M. Cowley, lead researcher.

It causes progressive weakness in muscles of the face, arms, legs, and around the shoulders and chest.

While it's common to have discomfort in the area during and post-pregnancy (as your pelvis widens to prepare for birth, ligaments stretch and tug on the joint, causing pain), many women experience it because of muscle tightness or weakness.

It can abruptly cause fever, chills, fatigue, severe itching, rapid pulse, loss of appetite, and muscle weakness, and it requires immediate medical attention, according to the NPF.

Since protein is needed for calcium absorption and supporting bone metabolism, a diet low in protein will not only raise your risk of muscle loss, but it can also cause bone weakness, slow bone healing and fractures, apart from the muscle loss.

Low levels are associated with muscle weakness, and that includes your pelvic floor, possibly causing you to get up several times a night to urinate or making you prone to accidental leaks,» she says.

In addition, serious deficiencies can cause muscle pain and weakness, soft bones and bone pain, and rickets.