Many older people experience two or more morbidities at the same time which is defined as multimorbidity, and within this comorbidity is defined as other co-occurring diseases in the same individual with an index condition.
This includes pneumonia caused by pathogens other than influenza, which may also be causes for heart disease morbidity and at the same time omits influenza outbreaks that do not produce much life-threatening illness.
Has morbidity decreased faster than mortality (compression of morbidity 5), slower than mortality (expansion of morbidity 6), or at the same pace as mortality (relative compression of morbidity 7)?
Application of this technology would decrease diagnostic delay, thereby reducing transmission, morbidity and mortality and, at the same time, improving treatment outcome.
Pelvic bone harvesting from the iliac crest does, however, presents unacceptable rates of morbidity at the grafting site and at the same time may only provide a limited amount of cancellous bone[ 2- 8].
This perhaps could also be related to the contradiction, well known both for women in Greece and in many other countries, between their higher than that of men life expectancy and (at the same time) higher morbidity rates [ 19].
Laparoscopy using a single port improves morbidity while keeping the same level of requirement.
These movements, responsible for some of the respiratory infections and severe diarrhoea epidemics, have at the same time introduced new morbidity risks such as sexually transmitted diseases".
At the same time, chronic disease morbidity has also increased, with people in older age groups being the most vulnerable to chronic disease.
Rates of morbidity were compared with the general population registered at the same general practices, and standardised by age, gender, and neighbourhood deprivation.
