chronic disease

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1. A disease of long duration. (Compare acute disease.)

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chronic disease

They talk of the importance of exercise and unprocessed food to defeat chronic disease.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

Preventing chronic disease means protecting time for children to move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

“They will show up in increased primary care office visits and exacerbations of chronic disease over the next few weeks,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

"This human arm was used to provide translational context, asking whether chronic disease tissue shows convergent signatures of altered lipid handling and reduced vascular stability."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026

But with the cutbacks, syphilis increasingly became a chronic disease, and the disease’s carriers had three or four or five times longer to pass on their infection.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell