A higher overall morbidity has been attributed to anterior flail segments as compared to lateral.
Low morbidity has been advocated for cryoablation of small renal masses.
Asthma morbidity has been associated with ambient air pollutants in time-series and case-crossover studies.
The ability of cardiac rehabilitation to reduce mortality and morbidity has been evidenced through several meta-analyses.
Psychiatric morbidity has been found to be a significant predictor of high ED utilization [1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 21].
Although autogenous bone grafting is the gold standard, the amount of available bone is limited, and donor site morbidity has been reported [2].
Critical illness in pregnancy, unfortunately, is not uncommon, given that the population-based incidence of severe obstetric morbidity has been reported to be as high as 1.2% in the UK [14].
The data on efficacy for prevention of morbidity has been limited to small studies, mainly hospital based with short follow up or day care center based, with small sample size and short follow-ups [21] [22].
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity has been linked to ambient air pollution especially fine particles [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], influenza activity [14] public smoking bans [15], [16], and to natural and manmade disasters [17], [18], [19].
As described in the previous paragraphs psychiatric morbidity has been associated with bullying-related behaviours.
The impact of birthweight on perinatal mortality and morbidity has been debated for decades [ 1- 11].
