18 Recent studies have identified Indonesia's sizeable chronic disease burden but little is known regarding the pattern of multimorbidity in the population.
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the single most common vaginal infection in women of childbearing age and associated with a sizeable infectious disease burden among both non-pregnant and pregnant women, including a significantly elevated risk of adverse pregnancy outcome.
Preventive measures and treatment guidelines are needed to address the sizeable prevalence of disease in this population.
Apart from South Africa's routine notification system currently reporting incidence and deaths from 33 notifiable medical conditions to local, provincial, and/or national health departments, the country's particularly sizeable burden of disease from cancer, injury, and tuberculosis is reflected in facility-based surveillance systems to help assess the extent and impact of these conditions.
Given the ongoing sizeable immigration from disease-endemic areas, cysticercosis will grow in clinical and public health importance; however, data on cysticercosis in the United States are lacking.
Despite advances in patient stratification and treatment selection, there are still sizeable segments of human disease with limited effective treatment options.
The hypothesis at the start of this research was that ADPKD patients, even early in disease, would pose a sizeable burden to the US health care system.
1, 2 While considered a nonlife-threatening chronic disease, psoriasis imposes a sizeable social and financial burden to patients, health care systems, and society overall.
Both tumour types are relatively common and include a sizeable proportion with advanced or metastatic disease, which in some cases require complex treatment decision-making.
The largest disparity by Indigenous status was observed for frequency of blood glucose and lipid measurements which is perhaps of even greater concern due to the sizeable burden of diabetes and cardiovascular disease among Indigenous Australians [ 7].
