If left untreated, HIV will gradually damage a person's immune system over a period of around a decade.
It destroys myelin, the protective sheath around nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord, and gradually damages the nerves themselves.
Performance of CNN/U.S. drives public perception — and employee pride — and declines there may gradually damage CNN's networks as a whole.
Indoxyl sulfate inhibits nitric oxide production and induces reactive oxygen species production, gradually damaging endothelial cell layer (Tumur and Niwa 2009).
Expansion of a CAG (cytosine-adenine-guanine) triplet repeat stretch within the Huntingtin gene results in a different form of the protein, which gradually damages cells in the brain, through mechanisms that are not fully understood.
Diabetes mellitus may gradually damage tissues and thus have an impact on mortality in the long term.
OA is the most common form of arthritis, which gradually damages the cartilage lining the joints (and the underlying bone) primarily in the hands, knees, hips, and spine.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) gradually damages the function and structure of particularly vulnerable brain areas, as those used for memory and cognition.
Further, she says, the company's plan to dump waste rock at the headwaters of the Estrecho River could be equally, albeit more gradually, damaging if the rocks start generating acid.
