"lead to further damage" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where one negative event or action might cause even more problems in the future. For example, "If the city does not take action to improve air quality, it could lead to further damage to the environment and the health of citizens."
A vicious cycle is proposed: mitochondrial DNA damage affects the respiratory chain function, leading to generation of more free radicals which, in turn, will lead to further damage to mitochondrial DNA [ 36].
Lemieux, a six-time N.H.L. scoring champion and a member of the Hall of Fame, was told that playing again this season could lead to further damage.
The Police and Fire Departments directed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to suspend service, out of concern that the vibrations of the moving trains could lead to further damage, M.T.A. officials said.
A Palestinian Hannah would also acknowledge that the damage has been done and attempts to undo Israel could only lead to further damage - and that Palestinians must forgive Israelis.
But he said the goal was to lower a patient's body temperature to reduce inflammation and the destruction of cells in the spinal cord, which can lead to further damage.
Goshi Hosono, a special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, identified two risks to the company's plans: that the new cooling systems would be too hard to build quickly and that a serious aftershock or tsunami could lead to further damage at the site before changes could be made.
In addition, excessive ROS can react with membrane lipids, generating lipid peroxides that can in turn lead to further damaging intermediates, such as malondialdehyde (MDA), to the point of inducing cellular dysfunction and/or cell death (Paciolla et al. [2004]; Maksymiec and Krupa [2006]; Schraudner et al. [1998]).
Unfortunately, restoration of the blood flow to ischemic tissues can lead to further damages.
This localized excess loading leads to further damage and malalignment within the joint during movement.
The restored oxygen supply and energy production in a situation of abnormal cellular environment leads to further damage [ 34].
In addition, early death from rapidly progressive atherosclerosis in SLE suggests that, despite apparent reasonable disease control, subclinical inflammatory disease promotes endothelial damage and plaque formation and that prolonged exposure to corticosteroids and immunosuppressive drugs leads to further damage beyond the SLE itself.
