The phrase "a condition that afflicts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a medical or psychological condition that causes suffering or distress to an individual or group.
Example: "Depression is a condition that afflicts millions of people worldwide, impacting their daily lives and overall well-being."
Alternatives: "a disorder that affects" or "an ailment that troubles".
No one is predicting a sudden surge back to bypass, which is still a far more invasive and initially riskier way to treat plaque-clogged heart arteries, a condition that afflicts millions of Americans.
Valdez may indeed have had low levels of testosterone, a condition that afflicts an estimated 1 in 250 men between ages 25 and 35, but low levels of testosterone can also be a symptom of steroid use.
David Owen's article on a condition that afflicts golfers deftly brought to light emerging research on dystonia, a little-known neurological disorder that manifests in surprisingly diverse ways and in people of all ages and backgrounds ("The Yips," May 26th).
Daraprim — which is used to treat toxoplasmosis, a condition that afflicts AIDS patients, among others — first came on the market back in 1953, so it has long since gone off patent.
Web sites that fared poorly in the Keynote index, like Boise Cascade Corporation's OfficeMax.com, blamed a condition that afflicts a subset of online retailers every year: unexpectedly high demand.
The idea is to repair the hearts of people with congestive heart failure, a condition that afflicts nearly five million Americans, by recreating heart tissue damaged by heart attacks and the wear and tear of aging.
It is a natural psychological condition that afflicts most human beings grieving a major loss, at least for a time.
The firsthand reports especially piqued the interest of parents with children suffering from Dravet Syndrome, a rare, incurable condition that afflicts children with hundreds of small seizures a day.
Common, mild illnesses or isolated symptoms such as headaches or sore throats may be signs of school refusal, an anxiety-linked condition that afflicts up to a quarter of schoolchildren.
One of those diseases is myotubular myopathy, a degenerative muscular condition that afflicts almost exclusively males and kills one in every 50,000 newborns by the time they reach age two.
During informal interviews in the course of an ethnographic study on intergenerational dialogue between individuals with neurofibromatosis and their parents, some members of Canadian neurofibromatosis associations stated to the authors that they continue to be told the condition that afflicts them or their children is the "elephant man's" disease.
