comorbidity
Americannoun
plural
comorbidities-
Medicine/Medical. the presence of two or more medical concerns in one person, which often causes additional complications or difficulties.
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Medicine/Medical. a medical condition which frequently co-occurs with another.
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This measure distinguished individuals with high and low Charlson Comorbidity Index scores, a widely used metric that estimates how additional health conditions affect a person's risk of death.
From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026
The 2015 study of the National Comorbidity survey found about 9 percent of American adults both report violent, impulsive behavior and keep guns in the home.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2021
Comorbidity in bipolar disorder is also very common, so again, a physician might quickly pick up on an anxiety disorder but fail to screen for other illnesses.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2018
Researchers arrived at that figure using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally representative study designed to gauge the overall mental health of Americans, and extrapolated it to the general population.
From Time Magazine Archive
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