Although intermediate uveitis can develop at any age, it primarily afflicts children and young adults.

Sickle cell anemia is a genetically based blood disease that primarily afflicts blacks and has no known cure.

She focuses her research efforts on combating diseases that primarily afflict people in developing nations.

Mycoplasmas are the main cause of a milder form of the disease, walking pneumonia, that primarily afflicts young adults and children.

Then they delivered the really bad news: she had an advanced case of osteoporosis, a bone-thinning condition that primarily afflicts older people.

The bulk of his research was regarding a hereditary conditions that primarily afflicts the hands of individuals, entitled Brachydactyly.

There is also very little research for diseases that primarily afflict the poor (Trouiller et al. 2001; WHO 2003).

Unlike the more common osteoarthritis, which afflicts primarily older people, rheumatoid arthritis can strike at any age.

Dubbed "the disease of kings and the king of diseases," gout has long had the reputation as a condition primarily afflicting men who are well off.

But many traditional leaders and politicians continue to assume that the disease primarily afflicts whites and foreigners.