The phrase 'multiple chronic diseases' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase to describe a medical condition, such as "The patient is suffering from multiple chronic diseases, including diabetes and hypertension."
Most have multiple chronic diseases, so they take more drugs, putting them at higher risk for threatening interactions.
This is particularly true for patients suffering from multiple chronic diseases.
The presence of multiple chronic diseases in a single individual can be measured in multiple ways.
These were patients who typically had multiple chronic diseases and many prescriptions — who were not taking them because they either didn't fill their prescriptions or irregularly refilled them.
Ageing is driven by a loss of transcriptional and protein homeostasis1,2,3 and is the key risk factor for multiple chronic diseases.
Depression is common in older adults and often coexists with multiple chronic diseases, which may complicate its diagnosis and treatment.
A growing number of homebound frail older adults have multiple chronic diseases with frequent flare-ups of acute episodes.
Thus one may ask, how can we select a low-cost set of biomarkers that would be the most predictive of multiple chronic diseases?
These proposals call for greater use of health information technology, including electronic medical records, programs to manage the care of people with multiple chronic diseases and research to compare the effectiveness of different treatments.
"The favorable response to strength training in our subjects is remarkable in light of their very advanced age, extremely sedentary habits, multiple chronic diseases and functional disabilities and nutritional inadequacies," the researchers said.
Most of Dr. Sloan's elderly patients aren't perfectly healthy; they have multiple chronic diseases, often including dementia; they take lots of drugs and are physically fragile.
