Sentence examples for disorder afflicting from inspiring English sources

In World War II, many doctors were puzzled by jaundice, a liver disorder afflicting many Allied troops.

Estimates have obsessive-compulsive disorder afflicting anywhere from 2.5 percent to 8 percent of the human population.

A10 Bowel Drug Approved The F.D.A. approved Zelnorm, the first drug for women with a form of irritable bowel syndrome, a painful disorder afflicting millions.

Type 2 diabetes, also known as adult-onset diabetes, has become a highly common disorder, afflicting 16 million to 20 million people in the United States.

The disorder afflicting the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, stems from "his treatment while in C.I.A. custody" after his capture and could render him unable to assist in his legal defense, the psychologist said.

But he recalled being gripped by its use of ghosts, given the haunting quality of war, and by the all-but-undiagnosed presence of post-traumatic stress disorder afflicting most of the characters.

The disorder afflicts one in 500 people, though not always with fatal results.

PKU, an inherited metabolic disorder, afflicts one in 20,000 of the four million babies born each year in the United States.

In August , 2002 Time published a cover story titled "Young and Bipolar," with the tagline "Once Called Manic Depression, the Disorder Afflicted Adults.

Borderline personality disorder afflicts about 2percentt of the general population, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, and it is twice as common as a much better-known disorder, schizophrenia.

Bipolar disorder afflicts about 1percentt of the general population, so, in very rough terms, the risk of bipolar disorder in the children of these older fathers is about 3percentt.