Chronic in sentence

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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.

And we support all of that with an intensive psychotherapy program to address the despondency, despair and depression that always accompanies severe, chronic pain.

I had a reputation as being interested in patients with chronic fatigue.

The big change in our understanding of drivers of chronic health in the rich developed world is how important chronic stress from social sources is affecting the immune system, the cardiovascular system.

Now these statistics had a huge impact on me, but what really sparked my interest in my research was watching both my dad and my brother suffer from chronic allergies year-round.

And many of these chemicals are now linked to the skyrocketing incidents of chronic childhood disease that we're seeing across industrialized nations.

So a real skyrocketing of chronic childhood disease that includes other things like obesity and juvenile diabetes, premature puberty.

So in the industrialized world, we built walls that protect us from the externalities of our energy use; we can afford to clean up acute environmental disasters; and we can also afford to adapt to chronic conditions like climate change.

So I'm a woman with chronic schizophrenia.

My doctors diagnosed me with chronic schizophrenia, and gave me a prognosis of "grave."

And soon, I started hearing from people all over the world who were adopting their own secret identity, recruiting their own allies, and they were getting "super better," facing challenges like cancer and chronic pain, depression and Crohn's disease.

So while I was studying anatomy for a competition, I came across the topic of something called chronic wounds.

And one thing that stood out to me was a statistic that said that the number of people in the United States with chronic wounds exceeds the number of people with breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer and leukemia, combined.

So what is a chronic wound?

And why haven't I heard about a 5K walk for chronic wounds, why haven't I even heard about a chronic wound in general?

So after I got past those preliminary questions, and one that I will clarify for you, a chronic wound is essentially when someone gets a normal wound, except it fails to heal normally because the patient has some kind of preexisting condition, which in most cases is diabetes.

In the year 2010 alone, 50 billion dollars were spent worldwide to treat chronic wounds.

In addition, it's estimated that about two percent of the population will get a chronic wound at some point in their lifetime.

So as I started doing more research, I found that there was a correlation between the moisture level inside a wound dressing and the stage of healing that the chronic wound would be at.

AIDS had become a chronic disease.

Among the most pressing challenges that our species is faced with today are the chronic problems of Africa.

AIDS, incredibly, has just been named, in the past month, a chronic disease, meaning that a 20-year-old who becomes infected with HIV is expected not to live weeks, months, or a couple of years, as we said only a decade ago, but is thought to live decades, probably to die in his '60s or '70s from other causes altogether.

These are, indeed, the chronic disorders of young people.

When these cycles of stress and restlessness last several months, they’re diagnosed as chronic insomnia.

Approximately 8% of patients diagnosed with chronic insomnia are actually suffering from a less common genetic problem called delayed sleep phase disorder, or DSPD.

Hearing loss is the third most common chronic disease in the world.

And this is one of the reasons that chronic stress is sometimes associated with cardiovascular disease.

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