Two public health researchers at New Mexico State University are collaborating on a series of studies to understand the long-term impacts of food insecurity among American adults living with chronic diseases.
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Most pediatric cases of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are perinatal, meaning the virus is transmitted from birthing parent to child during pregnancy or birth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Oct 7, 2024
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Dupilumab improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and type 2 inflammation, according to a study presented at CHEST 2024, the annual meeting of the American ...
Oct 7, 2024
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Gothenburg have identified a biomarker that could become an important tool for health care in assessing patients with acute COVID-19 infection. The researchers have ...
Oct 4, 2024
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New research showing the association between greater bean and pulse consumption and improved shortfall nutrient intakes and a higher diet quality in American adults will be presented during the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics ...
Oct 3, 2024
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A UCLA research team has created the Comorbid Operative Risk Evaluation (CORE) score to better account for the role chronic illness plays in a patient's risk of mortality after an operation, allowing surgeons to adjust to ...
Oct 3, 2024
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Accelerating the decline in tobacco smoking globally, by decreasing smoking prevalence from current levels to 5% everywhere, could increase life expectancy and prevent millions of premature deaths by 2050, according to a ...
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Doctors have long known that children who become seriously ill with certain respiratory viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are at elevated risk of developing asthma later in life. What they haven't known is ...
Oct 2, 2024
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Hurricane Helene's flooding has subsided, but health risks are growing in hard-hit regions of the North Carolina mountains, where many people lost access to power and clean water.
Oct 2, 2024
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Regeneron's Dupixent (dupilumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for adults with inadequately controlled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and an eosinophilic ...
Oct 2, 2024
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A chronic disease is a disease or other human health condition that is persistent or long-lasting in nature. The term chronic is usually applied when the course of the disease lasts for more than three months. Common chronic diseases include asthma, cancer, diabetes and HIV/AIDS.
In medicine, the opposite of chronic is acute. A chronic course is further distinguished from a recurrent course; recurrent diseases relapse repeatedly, with periods of remission in between.
While often referred to as "non-communicable diseases", also usually lasting medical conditions, the latter are distinguished by their non-infectious cause. In contrast, some chronic diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, are caused by transmissible infections.
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