Sentences with phrase «lead to blindness as»

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

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The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and national rice research institutes in Bangladesh and the Philippines have joined with Helen Keller International (HKI), a leading global health organization that reduces blindness and prevents malnutrition worldwide, in a new effort to further develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential tool to reduce vitamin A deficiency.

This was marketed as «ideal for delicate infants», leading to rickets, blindness and death.

Diabetes is a serious condition, which if left untreated can lead to life threatening complications such as heart disease, stroke, lower limb amputation and blindness.

If diabetes is not well managed, it can lead to serious and life threatening complications such as heart and kidney disease, stroke, amputation and blindness.

«Prediabetes is often a pre-cursor to Type 2 diabetes which can lead to a shortened life expectancy and devastating complications such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and amputation.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

«Uncorrected refractive error continues as the leading cause of vision impairment and the second leading cause of blindness worldwide,» according to the article by Kovin Naidoo, OD, PhD, of Brien Holden Vision Institute, Durban, South Africa, and colleagues.

As RPEs help to maintain and support adjacent photoreceptor cells which capture light, their loss leads to blindness.

In healthy individuals HCMV establishes lifelong latency, but in immunocompromised patients, viral reactivation can lead to severe clinical symptoms, such as disseminated viral infection, blindness and potentially cancer.

Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear have, for the first time, identified rapidly proliferating cells (known as «neural crest - derived progenitor cells») in the corneal endothelium of specimens from normal corneas and from corneas with Fuchs» Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy (FECD), a condition in which the cells responsible for keeping the cornea clear die prematurely — often leading to blindness.

Many diseases that lead to blindness, such as glaucoma and macular degeneration, are caused by the death of certain cells in the human retina that lack the ability to regenerate.

Researchers report that kittens with the disorder, a visual impairment medically known as amblyopia that leads to poor sight or blindness in one eye, can completely recover their vision by simply spending 10 days in total darkness.

Loss of, or diminished, retinal DHA leads to visual impairment and may play an important role in the development of blindness from retinitis pigmentosa and other retinal degenerative diseases, as well as age - related macular degeneration (AMD), the foremost cause of blindness in people older than 50 years.

If diabetes isn't treated, it can lead to serious health issues such as heart disease, blindness and kidney problems.

Defects in mitochondrial DNA lead to devastating genetic diseases, with such symptoms as brain abnormalities, severe fatigue, blindness or defective heart function — and can be fatal.

These findings suggest that RPE cells, derived from iPS cells, could be used to treat blindness in humans, such as blindness caused by age - related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the Western world.

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.

Rubella led to various birth defects including blindness, deafness and severe mental retardation as well as miscarriages and stillbirths across Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s.

Vitamin E deficiency secondary to abetalipoproteinemia causes such problems as poor transmission of nerve impulses, muscle weakness, and retinal degeneration that leads to blindness [15].

Prof. Balakrishnan who leads the centre of excellence on tactile graphics at IIT Delhi introduced accessible materials for teaching subjects such as Science and Mathematics to people with blindness.

Anti-inflammatory drops are necessary for the remainder of the dog's life to prevent conditions such as a detached retina or glaucoma a condition where pressure increases within the eye often leading to blindness and eventual removal of the eye.

Large or dilated pupils could be a symptom of glaucoma, or other vision problems such as progressive retinal atrophy which can lead to permanent blindness.

Basset hounds are in general healthy, but they are prone to some genetic diseases, such as von Willebrands (a bleeding disorder), Thrombopathia, (a blood coagulation disorder), glaucoma (increased pressure in the eye leading to blindness), or disk rupture and other spinal problems.

This condition usually begins with night blindness in younger dogs, but as their vision deteriorates it can lead to blindness.

The warning signs of diabetes should be taken seriously, as diabetes is a complex condition that may lead to blindness if left untreated.

PRA leads to blindness, so it is important to only pick a puppy from a litter with parents that have been tested as clear from the disease.

Both types of combat injure specific body parts, leading to crippling effects such as blindness, but V.A.T.S. allows for greater precision when doing so.

This type of diabetes is a chronic condition and if not treated properly or as soon as possible it could lead to other medical issues, including blood vessel disease, heart disease, as well as a higher risk of high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, kidney damage, nerve damage, blindness, osteoporosis, hearing problems, oral conditions, and skin conditions.

Failure to do this can lead to complications that go so far as blindness, heart problems, kidney disease, and the loss of vital limbs.