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

Rather than treating obesity simply as the result of poor choices, the country's new law recognises it as a chronic disease influenced by biology, environment and social circumstances.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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

The relationship remained strong even after adjusting for factors including age, sex, education, chronic disease, depression, and length of follow-up.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 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