Sentences with phrase «myopathy weakens»
Dogs Provide Insight Into Rare Genetic Disease Centronuclear myopathy weakens skeletal muscles so severely that sufferers often die before age 18.
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About six in 100,000 babies are born with centronuclear myopathy, which weakens skeletal muscles so severely that children have trouble eating and breathing and often die before age 18.
Some research estimates that as many as 80 percent of thyroid patients have some degree of myopathy, a weakening of the muscles that sometimes leads to pain, tenderness, cramps, and spasms.