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Chronic Illness

Chronic Illness: Introduction

Serious chronic illnesses are a major health issue in modern society. Any illness is called "chronic" if it is long-lasting or even lifelong. The opposite of chronic is "acute", referring to diseases that come on quickly and often do not last long (if they last, they are said to become "chronic"). In the USA, more than 90 million people have a chronic illness, and the top 5 chronic illnesses (heart disease, cancer, stroke, COPD, and diabetes) together cause more than two-thirds of all deaths. ...more »

Symptoms of Chronic Illness

• Symptoms vary depending on the underlying condition involved
• Chronic symptoms
• Persistent illness
• more symptoms...»

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Treatments for Chronic Illness

• Vitamin C - possibly used for treatment of vitamin C deficiency
• more treatments...»

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Chronic Illness?

• Misdiagnosis of Chronic Illness
• Hidden causes of Chronic Illness (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Chronic Illness: Related Patient Stories

• Loss of singing voice, cronic horseness for 4 1/2 months
• cronic cough
• 4 yr old son has cronic cough
• Cronic cough
• cronic pain plus
• cronic congestion
• doubt for cronic bronchitis

Chronic Illness: Deaths

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Types of Chronic Illness

• Heart disease
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Cerebrovascular disease
• Hypertension
• more types...»

See full list of 16 Types of Chronic Illness

Causes of Chronic Illness

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• Chronic Illness as a symptom
• Medical news summaries relating to Causes of Chronic Illness

Disease Topics Related To Chronic Illness

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• Leukemia
• Multiple myeloma
• HIV infection
• Hepatitis B
• Hypertension
• Syndrome X
• more related diseases...»

Evidence Based Medicine Research for Chronic Illness

Medical research articles related to Chronic Illness include:

• Morita therapy for schizophrenia
• Patients' attitudes to the summary care record and HealthSpace: qualitative study.
• Protein/Creatinine ratio in preeclampsia: a systematic review
• Vaccines for preventing pneumococcal infection in adults
• Adult Conditioned Insomnia: Diagnosis to Management
• Decreased mortality and infectious morbidity in adult burn patients given enteral glutamine supplements: A prospective, controlled, randomized clinical trial
• Medicine prices, availability, and affordability in 36 developing and middle-income countries: a secondary analysis.
• more research...»

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Prognosis for Chronic Illness

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Research about Chronic Illness

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Statistics for Chronic Illness

• Medical statistics for Chronic Illness
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Chronic Illness
• Death and Mortality statistics for Chronic Illness
• Society statistics for Chronic Illness

Chronic Illness: Broader Related Topics

• Chronic infections
• Systemic conditions
• more types...»

Types of Chronic Illness

Chronic Illness Message Boards

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• I can not get a diagnosis. Please help.
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• What is the best treatment for this?
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