Caring for frail older people is about managing, not curing, a collection of overlapping chronic conditions, like osteoporosis, diabetes and dementia.
Accumulating evidence supports a crucial role of global DNA hypomethylation in tumor initiation and development: one study with a large sample collection of chronic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, gastric adenoma, and gastric cancer demonstrated that aberrant DNA methylation occurred in early stages and tended to accumulate along the multistep gastric carcinogenesis [ 35].
COPD is the name for a collection of lung diseases including chronic bronchitis, emphysema and chronic obstructive airways disease.
The FACT-G (version 4) is the core questionnaire of a collection of QOL inventories focusing on chronic illnesses [ 32].
Diabetes mellitus is described as a disease syndrome with a collection of metabolic disorders characterized by chronic hyperglycemia which results from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both [ 1, 2].
Valerie Martin explored the psyche of a struggling New York City actor in The Confessions of Edward Day, and Jonathan Lethem chimed in with Chronic City, a collection of interesting portraits of Manhattanites.
Diagnosed with a severe chronic illness at a young age, Bhavani has gone on to create Chronically Driven -- a collection of real stories from people around the globe who have persevered through chronic illness and created a better world.
The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) Measurement System is a collection of health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) questionnaires for various chronic diseases [ 5, 6].
The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) Measurement System is a collection of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires targeted to the management of chronic illness.
A chronic SDH is a collection of blood breakdown products that has been present for at least 3 weeks and can become acute-on-chronic if small hemorrhages in the collection occur.
The FACIT Measurement System is a collection of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires targeted to the management of chronic illness.
