The phrase "a life threatening issue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation or condition that poses a serious risk to someone's life.
Example: "The patient was rushed to the hospital due to a life threatening issue that required immediate attention."
Alternatives: "a critical health concern" or "a severe danger to life."
In Critical Care Units the life threatening issues take a priority and Nutrition takes a backseat.
I'm not even including the safety and life threatening issues our most marginalized encounter on a daily basis in one's neighborhood or income brackets that are even lower and pose so many more challenges.
But there are so many issues, dire and life threatening issues that need to be addressed.
Tapeworms generally cause only minor symptoms that are easily treated, but they can grow up to nine metres and cause life threatening issues like meningitis, epilepsy, and dementia.
The critical condition of mental healthcare is the "real" elephant in our shared house, America, and is the colossal beast our recently elected House of Representatives need to focus on in the upcoming hearings on life threatening issues and life saving solutions to help heal our shared pain and recover from our wounds.
Paramedics need to react appropriately when confronted with life threatening issues and intervene appropriately with reasonable skill and care.
Supportive listening can facilitate facing life threatening issues directly and help patients shift from emotion-focused to problem-focused coping (Moos and Schaefer 1987) and can limit feelings of social isolation (Spiegel and Diamond 2001).
Those remarks were widely condemned around the Internet and by Mr. Morgan's "30 Rock" co-star Tina Fey, who said the routine was "disturbing to me at a time when homophobic hate crimes continue to be a life-threatening issue".
Stand-up comics may have the right to 'work out' their material in its ugliest and rawest form in front of an audience, but the violent imagery of Tracy's rant was disturbing to me at a time when homophobic hate crimes continue to be a life-threatening issue for the GLBT Community.
This term has somehow become stupidly prevalent throughout media as a life-threatening issue for women only, because obviously, men don't need a work-life balance.
