In contrast, Professor Ron Z Goetzel from Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, US, argues that, when pitted against the costs of medical treatments, prevention "offers a good return on investment". 2 He says that prevention can include "such diverse and far-reaching" initiatives as raising ...
Differences between acute and chronic disease: comment on the article by Holmandoi:10.1002/acr2.11146Michael D. LockshinJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdACR Open Rheumatology
Diabetes can have a similar impact when not managed appropriately.The WHOestimates that about 422 million people worldwide have diabetes, and prevalence of the disease has been rising significantly in developing countries. Many people living with diabetes don't know it, and that puts them at great...
In 2020, 54 million US adults with chronic pain managed their symptoms with a mix of medication and nonpharmacologic therapies but one in four relied on medication alone, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show. Results from the annualNational Health Interview Survey(...
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 1-3 (glomerular filtration rate [GFR] > 30 mL/min/1.73 m²) are frequently asymptomatic; in terms of possible “negative” symptoms related simply to the reduction in GFR, they do not experience clinically evident disturbances in water or ele...
Innate immune activation in neurodegenerative disease. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 14, 463–477 (2014). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Miller, A. H. & Raison, C. L. The role of inflammation in depression: from evolutionary imperative to modern treatment target. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 16, 22–34...
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) have a growing life expectancy in the US due to early provision of effective antiretroviral treatment. This has resulted in increasing exposure to age-related chronic illness that may be exacerbated by HIV/AIDS or antiretroviral treatment. Prior work has suggeste...
Another researcher has also discovered that there is “little doubt” that the COVID-19 injections cause prion disease. The current RNA-based SARSCoV-2 vaccines were approved in the US using an emergency order without extensive long-term safety testing. In this paper the Pfizer COVID-19 ...
We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic burden of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross domestic product (GDP). Unlike earlier frameworks, this approach allows us to account for i) ...
Review article: Getting the balance right: assessing causes and extent of vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease. Vascular calcification is part of the definition of chronic kidney disease mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). It is also a surrogate parameter of cardio... M Ketteler,PH ...