The phrase "acquired illnesses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to diseases or health conditions that a person has developed over time, often as a result of exposure to certain factors or environments.
Example: "The study focused on the impact of environmental factors on acquired illnesses among the population."
Alternatives: "contracted diseases" or "developed health conditions".
We then applied the commodity-specific percentage of ill persons to the total estimated proportion of domestically acquired illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for each etiology (1 ).
Both hereditary diseases and acquired illnesses, such as cancer, can be targeted.
†Percentage foodborne among domestically acquired illnesses.
Tens of thousands of children die each year in high income countries from trauma, prematurity, heritable disorders, and acquired illnesses.
The estimated number of domestically acquired illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for each etiology was obtained from published estimates (1 ) or, when not available, by extrapolating from available data.
Foodborne disease is an important public health problem in the United States, with an estimated 9.4 million domestically acquired illnesses and 1351 deaths from known pathogens each year [ 1].
F oodborne diseases are a major cause of illness in Canada, with an estimated 4 million episodes of domestically acquired illness occurring each year (Thomas et al., 2013).
Toxoplasmosis-associated illnesses include congenital neurologic and ocular disease; acquired illness in immunocompetent persons, most notably ocular disease; and encephalitis or disseminated disease in immunosuppressed persons.
The first well-documented report of human ZIKV infection was in Uganda in 1964 when Simpson described his own occupationally acquired illness [ 3].
The absence of systemic corticosteroids, the lack of acquired illness during the ICU stay and the rapid resolution of lung injury were associated with higher functional levels at 1 year.
Alzeer et al., reported that tuberculosis (20%), Gram negative organisms (18.8%) and Streptococcus pneumonia (10%) were the frequent isolates from patients admitted to two hospitals in Makkah during Hajj, and concluded that the etiological agents of pneumonia during Hajj are different from those of more typical community acquired illness [ 11].
