acute illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofacuteandillness
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acute
adjective
uk/əˈkjuːt/us/əˈkjuːt/
If a bad situation is acute, it causes severe problems ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition ofacuteandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Some patients present with falls as a manifestation ofacuteillness, and falls are one of the classically described atypical presentations of acute illness in old age.
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Men, in turn, suffer increased fatal chronic illness and lessacuteillness.
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She has survived overwhelming odds and complications fromacuteillnessbefore; why is this any different?
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As anacuteillness, it is a lifethreatening episode that gives survivors a lasting sense of their own mortality.
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Questions are also asked onacuteillnessand on the utilisation of selected health and personal social services.
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People may value a health improvement by reference to the health state before the onset of anacuteillness.
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Because of the seriousness ofacuteillnessin patients with low albumin, they are often given nutritional supplements.
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We therefore took pains to assess infectious and atopic symptoms, and reschedule participants with any symptoms ofacuteillness.
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In addition, metformin should probably be withdrawn during periods ofacuteillness(this is true also of the sulphonylureas).
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Admissions in the early stages are for diagnostic procedures,acuteillnessor if the baby fails to thrive.
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This situation, which is unusual by international standards, provides a unique opportunity for research intoacuteillness.
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They suffer from chronic andacuteillnessand poverty.
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Approximately 15-25% of children who acquire the disease develop aneurysms of one or more coronary arteries following theacuteillness.
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The slow process causing later occlusion might be due to slow obliteration of the shunt, possibly aggravated by anacuteillness.
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Some 95-100% of the men looked well, had no complaint about any chronic oracuteillnessand were not receiving medical attention.
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Most patients with residual aneurysms also fare well over the years after theacuteillness, despite echocardiographic evidence of persistent coronary arterial dilatation.
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The mean age of this group was 4.5 years (range: 1.4-6.0), and all were 1-4 years beyond theiracuteillness.
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If acute patients are being screened, therefore, it is important to repeat thyroid function tests if there are initial abnormalities when theacuteillnessis completely over.
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This study explored immunological, endocrine, behavioural and cognitive responses to theacuteillness and assessed which components of these groups of risk factors predicted a chronic course.
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Since the euthyroid sick syndrome induced by cardiopulmonary bypass is anacuteillness, we believe that dosage with triiodothyronine will be more effective than supplementation using thyroxine.
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From an evolutionary perspective, the similarities in the response to stress andacuteillnessmay be understood by studying the systems subserving adaptation and defence in primitive organisms.
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The illness experience has, in itself, been the subject of considerable discussion as to how individuals and those around them respond to episodes of chronic andacuteillness.
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We studied 17 children, mean age 81 months (2 girls), more than a year afteracuteillnessand compared them with 18 normals of similar age.
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