Collocations withillness
These are words often used in combination withillness.
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acute illness
Some patients present with falls as a manifestation of acute illness, and falls are one of the classically described atypical presentations of acute illness in old age.
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brief illness
He died after a brief illness and a subsequent operation.
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childhood illness
It is thought to be because of traffic fume pollution, but whatever its cause, asthma is the biggest cause of childhood illness.
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chronic illness
Creating health with chronic illness.
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debilitating illness
As he has said, this is a debilitating illness.
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depressive illness
Major depressive illness has been shown to attenuate this bias.
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diarrhoeal illness
Controls reporting a diarrhoeal illness in the 3 weeks prior to interview were excluded.
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disabling illness
It is a most disabling illness if we define disablement as a condition which prevents people from following their normal lives and careers.
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fatal illness
Such patients and families face the conundrum of a potentially treatable yet often fatal illness.
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febrile illness
In most patients the infection is asymptomatic or presented as a nonspecific febrile illness; encephalitis may develop instead in more severe cases.
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flu-like illness
They might have been false positive epidemiologic cases with flu-like illness due to another cause.
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foodborne illness
There are several challenges for agencies involved in conducting good international investigations of foodborne illness.
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gastrointestinal illness
They were asked about onset and symptoms of gastrointestinal illness and use of health services.
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grave illness
Secondly, we have the case of a woman in the terminal stages of a grave illness.
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incidence of illness
Thus, while deriving the annual cost of illness, the variation in the incidence of illness over the year has to be considered.
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incurable illness
He does not have an incurable illness or disease.
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influenza-like illness
Reports from the ship's doctor indicated that at least 38 other passengers had sought medical attention during the cruise for influenza-like illness.
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lengthy illness
A lengthy illness might cause considerable distress for the informal caregiver (for instance, reduced performance on paid work).
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life-threatening illness
The catalyst for the request was a life-threatening illness.
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long-term illness
Those living alone have intermediate rates of long-term illness.
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major illness
In addition, persons who had been diagnosed with major illness were found to have had higher mortality.
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mild illness
Under-reporting of viral gastroenteritis is common because it is usually a mild illness.
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minor illness
How can we study common acute minor illness?
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mysterious illness
He died of a mysterious illness.
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neurological illness
The latter focused on history of cardiovascular disease, stroke, other neurological illness and memory problems.
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onset of illness
For schizophrenia patients, treatment plans from the onset of illness should involve health promotion.
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painful illness
It is an extremely painful illness.
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preventable illness
I would sooner see that money spent on the elderly and the other things that the area needs, rather than on treating a preventable illness.
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prolonged illness
So the main categories of poverty today are due either to prolonged illness or old age.
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psychiatric illness
The genetic factors that influence self-report psychiatric illness also influence psychiatric illness as described by relatives.
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respiratory illness
Fifty-five gastroenteritis episodes (10.5 %) were associated with an inter-current respiratory illness, and 11 episodes (2.1 %) with both antibiotic use and inter-current respiratory illness.
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risk of illness
The relative risk is the risk of illness in the exposed divided by the risk of illness in the unexposed.
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serious illness
This is a serious illness.
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severe illness
If so, the less severe illness is still serious.
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specific illness
Not all the articles discuss a specific illness and its cure.
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stage of illness
The patients are usually brought to hospitals at the late stage of illness in the rural areas.
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sudden illness
Sudden illness was raised as one of them.
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systemic illness
The anaemia, neutropenia and thrombocytopenia may occur either singly or in combination and there is, by definition, no underlying systemic illness to account for them.
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terminal illness
An initial assessment of suffering in terminal illness.
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underlying illness
Of the 26 patients with known medical histories, 14 (54 %) had an underlying illness.
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viral illness
Ten per cent of patients remember a recent viral illness and most are aware of a systemic upset.
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work-related illness
They argued that traumatized veterans were entitled to specialized psychiatr ic care and disability pensions because they suffered from a disorder that was equivalent to a work-related illness.
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