Chronicity

Creating chronicity

An authentic sickness history is the vantage point for juxtaposing a biomedical and a biographical-phenomenological reading. What, in a biomedical framework, appears to be a longstanding state of comorbidity of different and unrelated types of diseases is rendered transparent in a biographical reading. This particular reading, evidencing the shortcomings of a biomedical framework regarding iden...

Depression, Vascular Conditions and Chronicity

Comorbid pain and migraine chronicity

OBJECTIVE To identify patterns of noncephalic pain comorbidity in people with episodic migraine (EM; <15 headache-days per month) and chronic migraine (CM; ≥15 headache-days per month) and to examine whether the presence of noncephalic pain is an indicator for the 3-month onset or persistence of CM. METHODS Data from the Chronic Migraine Epidemiology and Outcomes (CaMEO) Study, a prospective,...

Henoch-Schönlein purpura: recurrence and chronicity.

OBJECTIVES To describe a group of patients treated at our service for Henoch-Schönlein purpura, with emphasis on recurrent and chronic cases, and to compare clinical and demographic characteristics of patients with monocyclic and recurrent disease. METHODS Data on 67 patients who had been treated since disease onset were analyzed. Twelve patients were excluded because they failed to return fo...

Contextualizing chronicity: a perspective from Malaysia

The increasing prevalence of chronic Non Communicable Disease (NCD) around the world is well documented and projections suggest a frightening increase in prevalence around the world. The majority of new patients with chronic disease are expected to occur in developing countries. Effective management of chronic disease is a complex process that involves a proactive health care team working withi...