Sentences with phrase «condition affecting the glands»

Unfortunately Poodles are prone to dermatological issues including sebaceous adenitis, a condition affecting the glands that lubricate the hair follicles and skin.

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If you eat well, exercise every day and still can't seem to deflate your spare tyre, then you may be in the 75 per cent of overweight women who have an undetected hormonal condition, which affects the thyroid, adrenal gland, ovaries or insulin levels.

A variety of health conditions can adversely affect the body's ability to produce its own digestive enzymes resulting in production of poorly functional enzymes or diminished secretion of enzymes by the salivary glands, stomach or pancreas or reduced enzyme activity in the intestinal brush border.

For 25 years I have suffered with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and auto - immune condition affecting the thyroid, which causes an unsightly swelling of the thyroid gland in the neck.

Diseases and conditions that can affect the salivary glands include infections, obstructions, cancer, mumps and Sjogren's syndrome.

While hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism both affect the same butterfly - shaped thyroid gland, these conditions have opposite effects on your body.

A: Hashimoto's (Hashi's) is an autoimmune condition that affects the thyroid gland, causing clinical symptoms of hypothyroidism.

This condition, which involves enlargement of the prostate gland, commonly affects men 50 years and older.

Thought generally well informed health-wise, I didn't know that thyroid issues are not a faulty / failing thyroid, as I'd been given the impression of, but an auto - immune condition, where the immune system is actually attacking, and trying to destroy the thyroid gland, and which may well affect other organs too (whether now or later).

Apart from this, dachshunds — if breeders don't focus on eradicating the risks — are prone to certain conditions that affect their skin, their eyes as well as their anal glands.

This condition occurs when a tumor in one or both thyroid gland lobes (70 % of cats diagnosed have tumors in both lobes), produces excess feline thyroid hormone, and all organs are affected in a negative manner.