inherited disease

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Peripheral neuropathy can occur from diabetes, injury, genetically inherited disease, infection, and more.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

Jason Diaz said at a news conference Wednesday that he was diagnosed with the inherited disease at 32, had his stomach removed and has been treated with chemotherapy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

The inherited disease leads to the loss of nerve cells involved in walking, crawling, sitting, breathing and swallowing.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021

Kyra, who has sickle cell, had suffered a devastating stroke — her second — a common complication of this inherited disease, which afflicts 100,000 Americans, most of them Black.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2021

The early smile of the one is often as much a reflex action as the crying and blustering of the other, from hunger or inherited disease.

From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)