chronic disease

plural chronic diseases

1. medicineSynonym of chronic illness

   Instead of twentysomethings with one rare but curable disease, they find eightysomethings with many common chronic diseases that aren't curable.

   2011, Mark Lachs, M.D., chapter 3, in What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Getting Older

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   Refusing the idea that poor whites of the South were racially degenerate or dysgenically mixed, they argued instead that poor whites were suffering from chronic disease, the effects of which were commonly mistaken for degeneracy.

   2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 96

   And the primary cause of disability is chronic disease — cardiovascular, musculoskeletal problems and cancer are leading diagnoses — rather than work-related mishaps or nonworkplace accidents, according to a 2007 study for the Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education, a nonprofit organization that informs the public about insurance needs.

   2007 June 30, Hillary Chura, “Disability, the Insurance That Is Often Sadly Overlooked”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2019

   The subjects had no associated acute or chronic disease, had not been previously exposed to endogenous or exogenous glucocorticoid compounds other than HC and were not presently receiving either contraceptive estroprogestative or anti-epileptic compounds.

   2015 August 29, “Usefulness of Time-Point Serum Cortisol and ACTH Measurements for the Adjustment of Glucocorticoid Replacement in Adrenal Insufficiency”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

   Stringent exclusion criteria were employed to exclude regular alcohol drinkers, heavy smokers, the men with chronic diseases, urogenital infections, varicocele and other diseases which might lead to dysspermia, azoospermic men, and the men with 100% of immotile sperm, 100% teratospermia and incomplete data.

   2016 January 5, “Relationship between Lipids Levels of Serum and Seminal Plasma and Semen Parameters in 631 Chinese Subfertile Men”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

   "There are some things that RFK Jr. gets right," says former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden. "We do have a chronic disease crisis in this country, but we need to avoid simplistic solutions and stick with the science."

   2024 November 15, Will Stone, Allison Aubrey, “RFK Jr. wants to 'Make America Healthy Again.' He could face a lot of pushback”, in NPR

   Synonyms: chronic illness