Chronic in example sentence

And to give you a sense of the scale of these diseases, in 2010, the global burden of disease was estimated at 2.5 trillion dollars, and since they are chronic, that cost is compounding and is therefore expected to rise up to six trillion dollars in just the next 15 years.

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I learned about a disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.

And we know that as you get older in life, if you're obese when you're younger, that can lead to chronic diseases that not only reduce your quality of life, but are a tremendous economic burden on our health care system.

Now what does it have to do with chronic pain?

That's crazy, but that's, in fact, what happens with chronic pain.

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