In children, asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases with increasing prevalence.
Two recent studies have examined linkages between diabetes and cancer, two diseases with increasing prevalence and mutual dependence [9 12].
Valvular heart disease remains to be a major cause of death worldwide with increasing prevalence, mortality, and morbidity.
Neurodegenerative diseases are age-related and relentlessly progressive with increasing prevalence and no cure or lasting symptomatic therapy.
Surveys conducted in Scandinavia, Holland and Taiwan also indicate that school-aged children report frequent headaches with increasing prevalence rates during the last decades [3, 4].
Obesity has become a worldwide health epidemic with increasing prevalence.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major public health problem with increasing prevalence worldwide.
Bordetella pertussis is the main etiological agent of whooping cough or pertussis, an acute respiratory disease with increasing prevalence and incidence, particularly in neonates [1], [2].
With increasing prevalence of drug resistance globally [54], a higher percentage of recent infections are likely to be multi-drug resistant, resulting in higher rates of MDR-TB in HIV-positive individuals.
Type 2 diabetes is a serious disease with increasing prevalence.
Cancer is currently seen as a cluster of complicated diseases with increasing prevalence globally (1).
