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Meanings of chronic illness in English

A medical condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence.

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Examples for "chronic disease"
Examples for "chronic disease"
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Background: Aboriginal people in Australia experience significant health burden from chronic disease.
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Objectives: Programmes to address chronic disease are a focus of governments worldwide.
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Setting: Eighty-nine medical groups across California caring for patients with chronic disease.
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Ongoing education and support are vital to successful self-management of chronic disease.
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Overall, potassium levels were lower than recommended to reduce chronic disease risk.
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Usage of chronic illness in English
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Older adult caregivers managing personal chronic illness often experience significant psychosocial hardships.
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Mass incarceration increases a woman's risk of poverty, homelessness and chronic illness.
Ebony
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Control beliefs may be important for outcomes in individuals with chronic illness.
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This is a plan that fundamentally misunderstands disability, chronic illness and unemployment.
The Guardian
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Such information could inform policy and health system efforts to manage chronic illness.
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Main message: Major depressive disorder is an episodic, relapsing, and sometimes chronic illness.
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Aerobic capacity and physical functioning decline with age and chronic illness.
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Conclusions: Specific informatics strategies have the potential to improve care for chronic illness.
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The 65-year-old has witnessed first-hand how the chronic illness affected his own family.
The Irish Times
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Background: Associations between high BMI and sleep duration and chronic illness are recognised.
Pubmed
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For victims of chronic illness, that could be life-saving, or at least life-changing.
Reuters
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This study focuses on the partners of patients with chronic illness.
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Having a chronic illness was significantly associated with NSBSC among European American women.
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Some believed that it could be linked to a chronic illness.
The South African
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They suffer from disease, chronic illness and complicated sexual and reproductive health concerns.
The South African
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It is a severe, chronic illness characterized by long-term physical and mental fatigue.
Reuters
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Chronic illness through the time
Chronic illness across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
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