But as the disease progresses, steroids make the patient more vulnerable to secondary infections, according to experts consulted during the Supreme Court ruling.
Our inclusion criteria led to a preselection of mildly affected patients with low-flow haemodynamic infarction, because of their impaired collateral function being particularly vulnerable to secondary worsening.
In the acute stages of disease, neurons in the ischaemic lesion rapidly die and other neuronal populations in the ischaemic penumbra are vulnerable to secondary injury.
Prison-based research has been limited due to concern that prisoners may represent a vulnerable population secondary to possible coercion and limited capacity for voluntary informed consent.
The study is designed to identify contributors to, and consequences of, oxidative stress in a white matter tract vulnerable to secondary degeneration.
And implementation, where it exists, is flawed and often throws women in deplorable jail conditions, where their basic rights are often ignored and they remain vulnerable to secondary abuse from authorities.
The symptoms are not as severe as those for major depression, although people with dysthymia are vulnerable to secondary episodes of major depression (sometimes referred to as double depression).
We have investigated the possibility that transgenerational effects from preconceptional paternal irradiation (PPI) may render offspring more vulnerable to secondary exposure to an unrelated carcinogen.
