Older COPD patients may have suffered longer from COPD and anticipate illness as part of growing old.
Macdonald et al [ 33] note how practice nurses in primary care in adapting to this changing work context develop heuristic notions of patients as "good self managers and bad self managers", allowing this to dictate and anticipate illness trajectories.
Understanding your genetics can be critical in preventing disease, as anticipating certain illnesses that run in your family can literally save your life.
I co-led the group that developed these recommendations... the first specific guidelines provided by any professional organization to try to harness the power of DNA sequencing to anticipate unsuspected illness.
Other exclusion criteria were documented problems with mobility, balance or sight, severe cognitive dysfunction or other severe psychiatric illness, anticipated short survival, and difficulties understanding or reading the Swedish language.
It described Spencer as "entering the next phase of his illness, as anticipated, with the appearance of gastrointestinal symptoms".
People with schizophrenia experienced low self-esteem, and both those individuals and their caregivers desired to conceal the illness, and anticipated and faced discrimination from others.
According to Dwayne Spradlin, CEO of the nonprofit Health Data Consortium, the power to access and analyze enormous data sets can improve our ability to anticipate and treat illnesses.
But he added that not every illness could be anticipated.
I have spent every day since expressing gratitude for being alive, though I never anticipated that recovering my pre-illness life and livelihood was going to be as tough as it has been.
