comorbidity
Americannoun
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comorbidities
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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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In another analysis involving 570 people with suspected serious illness, researchers created a fragmentation comorbidity index.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026
The company said it’s starting a Phase III program on the oral drug elecoglipron after it said obese or overweight participants with at least one comorbidity met the primary endpoint in a Phase IIb trial.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
If most older patients have a comorbidity, then that’s not a reason to exclude them from trials—it’s the reason to include them.
From Slate ● May 20, 2025
Ozempic has been approved only for type 2 diabetics, and Wegovy has been approved only for patients with a BMI above 30, or 27 if they have a weight-related comorbidity like high blood pressure.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 1, 2023
And Sharon D Clarke, as Linda, is so paradoxically shattering in her stoicism that she turns what is usually portrayed as unshakable loyalty into a kind of heedless comorbidity.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
“Not only will weight come back, comorbidities will come back, and we know from lifestyle studies … when you gain it back, you’re gaining more fat than muscle.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
This crisis is fuelled by an older and growing population with increased comorbidities, which is the presence of two or more health conditions in one person.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
Researchers said the findings were still sound after they controlled for comorbidities that could impact sleep, brain injury and other factors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Yet even after accounting for factors such as body mass index, age, alcohol use and comorbidities, researchers found the association between UPF consumption and active psoriasis remained strong.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024
Even with lifelong ART treatment, the virus remains latent in reservoirs throughout the body that can reactivate at any time, and over the long-term, these reservoirs can contribute to chronic inflammation and comorbidities.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2024
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