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Its focus on innate racial differences in disease diverts attention and resources from the social determinants that cause appalling racial gaps in health: lack of access to high-quality medical care; food deserts in poor neighborhoods; exposure to environmental toxins; high rates of incarceration; and experiencing the stress of racial discrimination.
Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world.
In Africa, about a snake who could cause the ground to smoke.
An acute exposure to one sievert will probably cause nausea within hours, and four sieverts could be fatal.
If gasoline use is less restricted by cost, this could also cause a huge surge in air pollution, an unintended consequence that's important to think about.
Increased dehydration can cause notable drops in energy, mood, skin moisture, and blood pressure, as well as signs of cognitive impairment.
The heat generated from a device and its environment will eventually demagnetize hard drives, degrade the dye in optical media, and cause charge leakage in floating gates.
What we can say is that aging occurs when intrinsic processes and interactions with the environment, like sunlight, and toxins in the air, water, and our diets, cause changes in the structure and function of the body's molecules and cells.
By the mid 19th century, being excessively overweight, or obese, was recognized as a cause of ill health, and another century later, declared deadly.
No matter the cause, obesity is an escalating global epidemic.
Hormonal methods in particular can cause symptoms like headaches, nausea, and high blood pressure, but they vary from woman to woman.
Unfortunately, speakers can also manipulate people with false information that the audience thinks is true, such as the debunked but still widely believed claim that vaccines cause autism.
It's lucky we have these pelvic floor muscles because placing pressure on the system by coughing, sneezing, laughing, or jumping could cause bladder leakage.
Depending on what we eat, and specifically how much sugar we consume, certain microbes can overpopulate and cause cavities.
Diets high in sugary foods cause an explosion of bacteria called mutans streptococci in our mouths.
Some people are more susceptible to cavities due to genes that may cause certain weaknesses, like softer enamel, but for most, high sugar consumption is to blame.
He also believed that a woman's womb was a live animal that could wander around in her body and cause illness.
In the worst case scenario, a heart attack can cause sudden death.
And I worry that the trend towards personalized and precision medicine, looking for biological or genetic targets to better tailor treatment, may inadvertently cause us to lose sight of the big picture, that it is the daily context, where a person lives, grows, works, loves, that most importantly determines population health, and for too many of us, poor health.
Since then, we've learned to adapt by managing many of the factors that cause deaths, like environmental exposure and nutrition.
In some people, glitches in the pathways responsible for all of this can cause excessive itching that can actually harm their health.
Madame Curie's remains, too, were interred in a lead-lined coffin, keeping the radiation that was the heart of her research, and likely the cause of her death, well contained.
That's often true of subconcussive impacts which result from lower impact jolts to the head than those that cause concussions.
This category of injury doesn't cause noticable symptoms right away, but can lead to severe degenerative brain diseases over time if it happens repeatedly.
Once the tau proteins start clumping together, they cause more clumps to form and continue to spread throughout the brain, even after head impacts have stopped.
Tense muscles and inflamed, sensitive nerves cause varying degrees of discomfort in each headache.
While the cause is clear in secondary headaches, the origins of primary headaches remain unknown.
Scientists have theories for what the actual cause is, ranging from spasming blood vessels to overly sensitive nociceptors, but no one knows for sure.
Cluster headaches, another primary headache type, cause burning, stabbing bursts of pain behind one eye, leading to a red eye, constricted pupil, and drooping eyelid.
They’re concerned with how pressure can cause people to overanalyze the task at hand.
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