"Some had severe disabilities that caused them to withdraw [from the workforce] and others became despondent and perhaps obese from their lifestyles which caused disability problems".
The CIRS evaluates 14 biological systems as '0' (i.e. the selected system corresponds to the absence of disorders), ‵1′ (i.e. slight (mild) abnormalities or previously suffered disorders), ‵2′ (i.e. illness requiring the prescription of medicinal therapy), ‵3′ (i.e. disease, which caused disability), and ‵4′ (i.e. acute organ insufficiency requiring emergency therapy).
[Jo's 40-year-old sister Frances has cri-du-chat syndrome, a genetic disorder which causes learning disabilities.] It's been lovely to see her confidence grow – she elbows me out the way to talk to the audience now.
Babies with the disorder carry an extra copy of chromosome 21, which causes cognitive disabilities, heart defects, and other problems.
Experts estimate that 8,000 children could have been exposed to lead, which causes developmental disabilities, as a result of the water crisis.
Parker, now 14, has fragile X syndrome, which causes intellectual disability and autistic behavior.
Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) is a current condition and a major public health problem, which causes considerable disability [ 1- 3].
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic auto-inflammatory disease, which causes functional disability of the joints [ 1].
The communities also endure high burdens of soil-transmitted helminths and the ectoparasitic flea Tunga penetrans which causes severe disability of hands and feet.
The quest for discovery of molecules that improve CNS remyelination is prompted by the premise that this will not only help repair demyelinated lesions in multiple sclerosis (MS), aiding symptoms by overcoming conduction block and temporal dispersion of action potentials by restoring saltatory conduction, but also protect axons from neurodegeneration which causes progressive disability [ 8, 24].
Osteoarthritis is the most frequent chronic joint disease which causes pain and disability of especially hip and knee.
