Sentence examples for may aggravate a from inspiring English sources

At best, they say, pet massage fortifies the bond between human and animal in the same way that a good belly scratch does, and at worst, it may aggravate a serious medical condition or prevent owners from seeking veterinary help.

Rather than brandishing a firearm, which may aggravate a mentally ill person, officers are instructed to be patient and ask questions rather than bark orders.

The 2 million-member American Legion last spring got involved in a big way by launching a campaign to reduce marijuana restrictions that, it says, hurt veterans and may aggravate a suicide epidemic.

Scrubs, harsh soaps and other drastic treatments that strip off your topmost lipid barrier may aggravate a blemish problem by eliminating the protection your skin needs and by encouraging your skin to produce more oil of the type you are trying to control, like excess sebum.

The consequence of destroyed nerves may aggravate a poor prognosis by two mechanisms: (1) destroyed nerves hide the abdominal pain of PanCa and hinder the early detection of PanCa and (2) destroyed nerves increase the frequency and extent of PNI in PanCa, which is a risk factor for local recurrence.

It may aggravate a preexisting pain problem and other associated problems (e.g. problems in school, emotional distress) thereby becoming a condition that requires treatment.

Police even may aggravate an existing prejudice, though they seldom generate prejudice on their own.

It may aggravate an existing disease (urinary-tract infection, peptic ulcer, hepatitis, epilepsy) or arouse one lying latent (hepatitis, fatty liver, Hodgkin's disease), but, to the best of present medicinal knowledge, it is altogether lacking in creative pathogenic powers.

Ubiquitous upregulation of IL-1β in muscle fibres may aggravate an overexpression of APP and lead to an accumulation of β-amyloid.

This supports a stress-diathesis model whereby psychiatric illnesses or other life stressors are not exclusively responsible for suicide attempts (SA) but rather that they may aggravate an individual's genetic predisposition to suicidal behavior [Mann et al., 1999].

First, individuals may fear that peg-IFN may aggravate an existing psychiatric disorder or provoke others, particularly depression and suicide tendencies [ 37, 38]; however, suicidal ideation occurs in less than 10%% of cases [ 2, 39] and successful suicide attempts are merely anecdotal [ 2].