By this standard, the burden continues generally to ease.
1 In spite of these gains, the data show that a significant symptom burden continues to exist among PLWHA. 2 This symptom burden can include chronic pain, neurological deficits, and musculoskeletal impairments.
"Cuts to day-to-day public service spending are due to accelerate while the tax burden continues to rise," Paul Johnson, the director of the I.F.S., said.
The tax burden continues to grow, especially on middle-income Americans.
Moreover, caregiver burden continues in times of remission (Reinares et al. 2006) and is associated with patient dysfunction, duration of illness (Chakrabarti et al. 1992; Mitsonis et al. 2012), and symptom severity (Hjäthag et al. 2010).
And that financial burden continues to expand.
33 However, disease burden continues to grow.
Prostate cancer burden continues to increase because of the aging and growing population as well as nutritional patterns that tend to increase the risk for the disease.
The global cancer burden continues to increase due to a combination of factors including aging populations, population growth, and global increases in smoking, physical inactivity, and other cancer causing behaviours.
More patients are on now treatment and for the majority of patients, the pill burden continues to rise, at significant cost to funders, while improved disease markers and outcomes remain difficult to achieve.
