However, rTMS, especially when applied chronically, may cause harmful effects in the stimulated tissue.
But having chronically elevated insulin levels has harmful effects of its own — heart disease, for one.
Medicaid cuts would be particularly harmful to the chronically ill, who account for two-thirds of the publicly insured population.
When these relationships are abusive, threatening, chronically neglectful, or otherwise psychologically harmful, they are a potent risk factor for the development of early mental health problems.
Inflammation is a complex, concerted group of responses that, although defensive against infection, is harmful when induced chronically by environmental stimuli such as inhaled particles (Donaldson et al. 2006; Mroz et al. 2008; Oberdorster et al. 2005).
Numerous studies have shown that the practice reduces stress levels and cortisol, the stress hormone, which can be harmful when levels are chronically elevated.
A growing body of evidence suggests that CPPs may be isolated from the serum of patients with CKD but not in healthy individuals; they are further believed to mediate in part the harmful effects associated with chronically elevated phosphate in CKD [ 106– 108].
This has ushered back in a familiar debate, but this time on a very different playing field and with potentially far more harmful consequences for low-income and chronically unemployed individuals.
It wants amendments to protect the elderly, the chronically ill, the poor, and Indigenous Australians from the "harmful impact".
When this pathway is chronically turned on in the absence of glucose it becomes harmful to the T cells as it prevents the use of glutamine as a potential energy source.
