"It's really the responsibility of a health department to reduce chronic disease rates, " he said.
This suggests that such teamwork can improve the quality of care for elders with chronic disease.
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My argument is that today chronic disease is higher than it has ever been.
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Doctors in rich countries have the experience to detect, and the money to treat, chronic disease.
Her doctor diagnosed her with rheumatoid arthritis, an extremely painful chronic disease that inflamed her joints.
This is of particular concern because there's a direct link between stress, anxiety, depression and chronic disease.
The findings, however, stop short of saying that coffee drinking directly lowers the risk of chronic disease.
During her time in the area, her work included chronic disease management, immunisation and cervical smear testing.
For a chronic disease drug in an therapeutic category where good treatments already exist, this is challenging.
This is a key element in the progression of chronic disease, and it is, by and large, preventable.
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While asthma is a chronic disease with genetic roots, the triggers are environmental and can be substantially prevented.
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Still, many people are confused about Medicare benefits for those with chronic disease and uncertain about this case.
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Chronic disease management, acute care services and preventative care are all available at a face value, affordable price.
So the mobile phone could be a useful tool to combat both chronic disease and runaway medical costs.
Italy's economic illness is not the acute sort, but a chronic disease that slowly gnaws away at vitality.
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Chronic disease mortalities will overtake those of infectious diseases in that region as well by 2030, the report says.
However, because DMD is a chronic disease, the drug would be used for much longer periods in these instances.
Most of them, at some point, will develop a chronic disease or disability.
Researchers writing in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease have called for alcohol control as a model for food regulation.
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To older patients, a new diagnosis of a chronic disease can be frightening.
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That is, more than 75% of all healthcare spending goes towards chronic disease.
Various studies have attributed higher risk of maternal death to race, income, region, C-section rates, obesity-related problems and chronic disease.
The danger comes in when it comes to chronic disease management (where more than 75% of healthcare dollars are spent).
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This is especially important since recipients of care services suffer from chronic disease or injury that often requires complex medical interventions.
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While exploring chronic disease prevention with Adrian James who ran the medical products division, they came across a 2002 NIH study.
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But most problems that bring older people to the ER are related to chronic disease and treating those problems takes time.
Another key feature in making health care more affordable is early diagnosis, and better management of chronic disease via prevention efforts.
We need to change the way providers are paid to focus their attention more on chronic disease and managing their treatment.
As scientists understand the disease better, they will begin to treat it as any other chronic disease--such as diabetes or high cholesterol.
Eighty percent of those 65 and older suffer from at least one chronic disease and half suffer from two or more.
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