Sentence examples for expected to afflict from inspiring English sources

The company also hopes that related research will open up a new market for diagnosing and treating a much more common neurodegenerative condition, Alzheimer's disease, which is expected to afflict 20 million people by 2010.

New York, with its ambitious and highly praised public health system, has just three people and a $950,000 budget to outwit diabetes, a disease soon expected to afflict more than a million people in the city.

Using computer modelling, population data, and analysis of patterns in mutations, they make the overwhelming case for our way of life being the primary cause of the disease that can be expected to afflict one in two people born after 1960.

The available time should rather be utilized to make a thorough determination of the problems that can actually be expected to afflict a future secure supply of power and to prepare the design of the future electricity market accordingly.

If current trends hold, diabetes is expected to afflict a third of the population by 2050 (obesity, a prime cause of diabetes, will afflict half the population by 2030 at the current rate).

Diabetes mellitus currently affects more than 170 million individuals worldwide and is expected to afflict another 200 million individuals in the next 30 years.

Newborns that do not get hamesa are expected to be afflicted by a variety of illnesses.

It is proving to be a serious life threatening heterogeneous metabolic disorder affecting carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolisms and afflicting nearly an estimated 191 million people in 2000 and expected to affect an estimated 306 million by 2030 [ 1, 2].

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently estimated to afflict 25 30 million people worldwide, with the number of patients diagnosed expected to double by 2030 [ 1, 2].

Alzheimer's - already afflicting well over five million Americans -- is expected to claim more than 16 million of us by 2050 if a cure isn't found.

As many as 30 million people worldwide are afflicted with AMD, and this diagnosis is expected to increase dramatically in the coming decades because of aging populations (1, 2).