Sentences with phrase «form afflicts people»
Because this inherited form afflicts people late in life — as does the more common, sporadic form of PD — the discovery may help uncover a cause that underlies both of them.
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After the night with disrupted sleep, the researchers found people had higher levels of beta - amyloid proteins, the proteins that clump together and form the plaque found in Alzheimer's - afflicted brains, in the volunteers» spinal fluid.
Dengue, known in its most severe form as dengue hemorrhagic fever, is a potentially fatal mosquito - borne infection that afflicts up to 100 million people each year.
Several of these changes increase β amyloid formation and cause a devastating inherited form of Alzheimer's that afflicts people in their 30s and 40s — much earlier than the far more common «late - onset» form of Alzheimer's that typically strikes people their 70s and 80s.
The study, to be published online Dec. 8 in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, illustrates the importance of microglia and could lead to new ways of warding off the onset of Alzheimer's disease, which is predicted to afflict 15 million people by mid-century unless some form of cure or prevention is found.
... except for «all idiots, imbeciles, feeble - minded persons, epileptics, insane persons; persons who have had one or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; persons of constitutional psychopathic inferiority; persons with chronic alcoholism; paupers; professional beggars; vagrants; persons afflicted with tuberculosis in any form or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living; persons who have been convicted of or admit having committed a felony or other crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; polygamists, or persons who practice polygamy or believe in or advocate the practice of polygamy; anarchists, or persons who believe in or advocate the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States.»
The San Pedro Branch of the Belize Cancer Society was formed as more than 30 people turned out to support local cancer survivor Janine Lopez in her quest to do more for those afflicted with this life - threatening disease.