Sentence examples for silent disease from inspiring English sources

Chlamydia is a classic silent disease.

In this, the age of worry, anxiety has gone from silent disease to Tumblr-blogged, socially acceptable phenomenon.

Endometriosis has been called the silent disease, both because it's internal and because it once wasn't spoken of.

The scene is picture perfect, but the presence of a silent disease is an elephant in the room.

Also known as "the silent disease", chlamydia causes no obvious symptoms – 80% of people carrying it don't know they have it.

Osteoporosis, known as the "silent disease," often has no symptoms until the bones are so compromised that a minor trauma causes a fracture.

It is a silent disease that typically first shows up as a low-trauma fracture of the hip, spine or wrist.

Companies that rely heavily on sales of drugs that focus on long-term prevention of what Mr. Evans describes as silent diseases like high cholesterol are more likely to feel a drop in demand than companies that make a drug like Zyprexa, the Eli Lilly medicine for schizophrenia and acute bipolar mania, which is necessary for people to function, he said.

Physical impairment and traumatic diseases that cause physical impairment have the most impact whereas "silent diseases" such as hypertension or diabetes have little impact.

Is it one of those silent diseases that sufferers are too ashamed to talk about, but actually cripples hundreds of thousands of people every day?

A possible explanation is that the most common comorbid conditions were hyperlipidaemia and hypertension, which are "silent" diseases.