The phrase "altered burden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing changes in responsibilities or obligations, often in legal or formal settings.
Example: "The new regulations have created an altered burden on small businesses, requiring them to adapt quickly to comply."
Alternatives: "modified obligation" or "changed responsibility".
It was late September and we were back in Amherst, two students again, altered, burdened with the sad story of a lost boy which we could not tell anyone.
The increasing use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and pneumococcal immunization along with shifting community exposures may have altered the burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae disease in HIV-infected persons.
Levi Reed was charged with delinquency and reckless homicide after accidentally killing his friend, and his life will be forever altered and burdened by this tragedy. .
Arguments for inequity in spending relative to burden are equivalent to arguments for altering the burden metric used.
But whatever the limits on Mr. Bush's discretion, they do not alter the burden on his public comments and demeanor when the moment of decision comes.
The current and projected human health consequences of climate change are diverse and wide-ranging, potentially altering the burden of any health outcome sensitive to weather or climate.
This therefore, gives us a rare opportunity to study innate and adaptive immune responses to T. muris in the context of a resistant or susceptible outcome within one mouse strain without altering worm burden levels.
However, that climate change could alter the burden of noncommunicable diseases such as asthma has received far less attention than have potential impacts on infectious vector-borne and diarrheal diseases.
There needs to be increased awareness among Ministries of Health and donors of how climate change could alter the burden of a range of health outcomes, so that appropriate modifications are made in current programs to better address these health outcomes to increase future adaptive capacity.
The current disease burden is often adopted as the baseline; but this is rarely appropriate because development will occur and bring with it technology and other changes that will alter disease burdens, such as the ongoing, rapid increases in the burden of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries (Remais et al. 2013).
