"suffer deterioration" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation in which something has deteriorated over time, such as, "Our community has suffered deterioration over the last decade due to a lack of investment."
Despite the region's water wealth – rivers, lakes and subterranean aquifers – there are no effective national management plans for water resources, which continuously suffer deterioration due to human activity.
Of course, the last people to adopt digital – predominantly the poor and the old – suffer deterioration in the quality of the analogue services on which they rely.
We consider regulatory clinical trials that require a prespecified method for the comparison of two treatments for chronic diseases (e.g. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) in which patients suffer deterioration in a longitudinal process until death occurs.
Grade of evidence I; grade of recommendation A. Patients with Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia may suffer deterioration in pulmonary function after initiation of antimicrobials.
Thus, gene duplicates in the plastid tend either to remain identical in sequence (Wakasugi et al. 1994; Haberle et al. 2008; Guisinger et al. 2011) or suffer deterioration and loss of one copy (Poczai and Hyvönen 2013).
Both blends suffered deterioration in tensile strength and elongation at break after exposure to soil or enzymatic environments.
Seven (17%) patients from the mild TBI group suffered deterioration.
In July 1998, a Rocky Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) (goat 1) suffered deterioration associated with worsening pneumonia; the pathologic examination was consistent with TB, and culture confirmed M. tuberculosis.
One patient had suffered deterioration in her functional and emotional scores, but had already been investigated by her GP and was seeing a psychologist.
Some victims suffer mental deterioration.
Elderly drivers suffer from deterioration of sight and hearing.
