Sentence examples for afflict about from inspiring English sources

Severe symptoms of premenstrual syndrome afflict about 2.5percentt of women of childbearing age and can seriously interfere with a woman's ability to function socially and at work.

Migraines afflict about ten per cent of people with headaches, but a much larger percentage of those who see doctors, because migraines are difficult to control.

No one knows what genes predispose people to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, which each afflict about one in 100 people.

Wolfram syndrome is considered a rare disease and estimated to afflict about 1 in 160,000 770,000 [ 2, 3].

It is a synthetic version of the naturally occurring coagulation protein that is missing or deficient in people with hemophilia A, an ailment that afflicts about 13,000 Americans.

Migraine, a neurological disease, afflicts about 1 in 10 Americans.

It afflicts about 34,000 people a year and kills 8,000.

It afflicts about 100 babies a year, rendering them unable to process the amino acid leucine.

By contrast, it afflicts about 100,000 dogs a year in the United States.

Nationwide, nickel allergy afflicts about 3 percent of men and nearly 20 percent of women.

BUTLER: It afflicts about four and a half million people now.