Even though the diseases are by definition rare, Ms Evans explained that 1 in 17 people suffer from a rare disease during their lifetimes.

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ETC-216 will not be a drug for all the millions of people who suffer from severe coronary artery disease, even if it does eventually get a green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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So far, many public estimates have said that perhaps a tenth of the tens of thousands of people who are trapped in the city might suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, a disease that raises the risk of suicide sixfold.

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He treats four generations of one family who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure and a host of other weight-related complications.

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The other cases do not show the sort of transmission pattern that normally gives away a genetic disease yet there is a bigger chance than normal that someone will suffer from Alzheimer's if relatives on his mother's side have also suffered.

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"The longer they're transported, the more they suffer from stress and stress plays a major role in the development of disease".

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Lead researcher Dr Alan Thomas told BBC News Online the link could not be entirely explained by the fact that cardiovascular disease is a depressing condition from which to suffer.

BBC: Hardened arteries 'cause depression'

People who suffer from depression symptoms are far more likely to fall ill with heart disease, a major research paper suggests.

BBC: Depression may boost heart risk

By the time we--at a time when we suffer disproportionately from all of these diseases, such as heart disease, even some forms of cancer now because of our obesity and overweightness, hypertension, Type II diabetes, we really need to be working on ourselves from the inside out.

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