Twenty African countries have increased access to services for severe chronic disease such as type 1 diabetes, sickle-cell disease, and rheumatic and congenital heart diseases, over the last four ...

However, both rheumatic diseases and the medications used ... for rheumatologists because most diseases they treat are chronic, long-term conditions, many of which predominantly impact women ...

Though rare in the United States, it primarily impacts children ages 5 to 15 with untreated or undertreated strep throat ...

Introduction Screening echocardiography, guided by the current World Heart Federation (WHF) criteria, has important limitations that impede the establishment of large-scale rheumatic heart disease ...

3 Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain 4 Primary Care Research Institute Jordi Gol, Girona, Spain Objective To examine the association ...

Eleanor Rivera receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is affiliated with the National Kidney Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs. For a disease afflicting 35.5 ...

In addition to causing several types of cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV) appears to bring a significantly increased risk of heart disease and ... to be related to chronic inflammation.

Citation: 60 genes implicated in congenital heart disease, including some that also contribute to related disorders such as autism (2025, March 25) retrieved 17 April 2025 from https ...

Higher exposure to these microplastics, which can be inadvertently consumed or inhaled, is associated with a heightened prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases, according to new research being ...

Chronic systemic inflammation occurs when the immune system is constantly at work. This can trigger an overreaction that causes the body to attack itself. Inflammation can be a sign of some very ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a lethal and contagious neurological disorder, is spreading rapidly among wildlife across 36 US states and several other countries. Experts are emphasizing the grave ...