Sentence examples for afflicting predominantly from inspiring English sources

Ketamine cystitis is a growing global problem afflicting predominantly young patients and exposing them to significant risk of bladder damage with unknown long-term consequences.

Ketamine cystitis afflicts predominantly young patients, with unknown long-term consequences, and requires a strategy to control severe bladder pain in order to remove a dependency on the causative agent.

The water crisis afflicting this predominantly black Michigan city – ignored by Washington politicians for years – has become another battlefield in a progressive war between Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

The introduction of hypomethylating agents in the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) has significantly changed the clinical scenario of these diseases, which afflict predominantly older individuals.

In an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post, Bowser said the new hospital would help address disproportionately high rates of HIV, cancer, and infant and maternal mortality that afflict the predominantly African American neighborhoods east of the river, long a dividing line between the city's haves and have-nots.

Drugs that treat diseases predominantly afflicting the global poor are not very profitable.

So the treaty would force everyone, even developing countries, to pay more -- Russia, Ecuador, even Sweden". Drugs that treat diseases predominantly afflicting the global poor are not very profitable.

Addiction and trafficking have long afflicted this poor, predominantly Muslim country, where the rise of drug use is blamed on Western influences and a lack of financial opportunities for young people.

Dengue re-emerges in Singapore despite decades of effective vector control; the infection predominantly afflicts adults.

Osteoarthritis of the trapeziometacarpal joint predominantly afflicts women who are postmenopausal [ 2, 7, 21, 22].

Sepsis predominantly afflicts patients at the extremes of age, both old and young.