Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Chronic and hereditary diseases

Eighty percent of Americans have chronic disease, or 80 percent of age greater than 65 have two or more chronic disease, 140 million Americans have one or more chronic disease, and 80 percent of our 1.5, whatever, trillion expenditures are related to chronic disease.

Facing Up to Chronic Disease

AIDS had become a chronic disease.

Elliot Krane The mystery of chronic pain

Now what does it have to do with chronic pain?

Now what does it have to do with chronic pain?

That's crazy, but that's, in fact, what happens with chronic pain.

That's crazy, but that's, in fact, what happens with chronic pain.

Abolishing such chronic attitude is truly a major and difficult revolution .

The big change in our understanding of drivers of chronic health in the rich developed world is how important chronic stress from social sources is affecting the immune system, the cardiovascular system.

I had a reputation as being interested in patients with chronic fatigue.

Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds.

Chronic pain is an example. If you burn yourself, you pull your hand away.

Economic collapse and food insecurity are now chronic conditions in Zimbabwe, as we heard.

The chronic non contagious diseases are also the main causes of death in Republika Srpska.

Years of chronic insecurity and violence have had a deep psychological impact on the population.

One child out of four suffers from chronic malnutrition, his or her growth stunted forever.

The combination of recurrent natural hazards and chronic problems calls for comprehensive and multi level responses.

Road traffic accidents, and road fatalities in particular, remain a chronic problem in our world today.

The practice hinders women's sexual pleasure, causes pain and chronic infections and occasionally leads to death.

In addition, while the Sierra Leone Armed Forces have received 260 trucks generously donated by the Government of Switzerland, and may receive additional vehicles from donors to further enhance mobility, the use of the armed forces transport fleet is hampered by chronic shortages of fuel.

The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress.

What you're seeing here is, we've selected the pathways in the brain of a chronic pain patient.

Sulphur dioxide concentration above the ceiling provokes respiratory problems in the population, particularly chronic patients and children.

Night emergencies, chronic diseases, poisoning and quarantine arrangements for diseases like leprosy were simply not attended to.

Pursue work to improve further the classification scheme on chronic aquatic toxicity hazards (in cooperation with OECD)

Which chronic diseases, other than those pertaining to reproductive health, did women suffer from more than men?

LDCs would be home to 471 million people in chronic poverty by 2015 if current trends continued.

Among the most pressing challenges that our species is faced with today are the chronic problems of Africa.

And research shows that they would be years largely free of chronic disease, heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

At the same time, population explosion, aging, chronic disease and other problems are also the serious challenges we faced.

So a real skyrocketing of chronic childhood disease that includes other things like obesity and juvenile diabetes, premature puberty.

All population groups are exposed to environmental risk factors, but particularly children, pregnant women, chronic patients and the elderly.

Having suffered from chronic food deficits in the 1970s, Bangladesh is now very close to achieving food self sufficiency.

The Bill on equal treatment for people with a disability or chronic illness became law on 1 December 2003.

Hunger, poverty, chronic disease and unemployment, as well as armed conflict, terrorism and foreign occupation, continued to obstruct development.

In 2005, the Australian Government announced a new initiative called Healthy for Life , to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mothers, babies and children, enhance the quality of life for people with a chronic condition and, over time, reduce the incidence of adult chronic disease.

Financial incentives have compounded the problem, leading to some alarming trends. Procedures, operations, and prescription opioid use aimed at curbing chronic pain have increased dramatically over the last decade, driving up health care costs, while failing to stem the increase in the prevalence of pain or the number of disability claims.

Doctors told Xue that it was almost impossible to cure chronic bronchitis and such problems may be alleviated with medication.

In the nineteenth century, chronic disease was considered problematic in part because sufferers took up scarce beds in hospitals that were increasingly focused on treating acute, curable diseases. But chronic disease soon became a wider public health issue as the death toll from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes seemed to rise.

The field studies used to justify their inclusion sometimes involved a single patient evaluated by the person advocating the new disease. Experts pressed for the inclusion of illnesses as questionable as chronic undifferentiated unhappiness disorder and chronic complaint disorder, whose traits included moaning about taxes, the weather, and even sports results.

This is an investigational technology, but, in clinical trials, we're seeing a 44 to 64 percent decrease in chronic pain patients.

Comparative analysis for the 1999 2001 period shows a high rate of chronic, massive and non infectious diseases in Republika Srpska.