OBJECTIVES Although self-rated health (SRH) is recognized as a strong and consistent predictor of mortality and functional health decline, there are relatively few studies examining SRH as a predictor of morbidity. This study examines the capacity of SRH to predict the onset of chronic disease among the late midlife population (ages 51-61 years). METHOD Utilizing the first 9 waves (1992-2008)...

Chronic diseases have become a major public health problem. Chronic diseases are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in India and other lowand middle-income countries. The chronic diseases account for 60% of all deaths worldwide. Eighty percentage of chronic disease deaths worldwide occur in lowand middleincome countries.1 In India, the projected number of deaths due to chronic disease w...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the relative contribution of adult compared with early life socioeconomic status as predictors of morbidity attributable to coronary heart disease (CHD), chronic bronchitis and depression in the Whitehall II study of British civil servants. DESIGN Prospective observational study with mean 5.3 years (range 3.7-7.6) follow up. SETTING 20 civil service departments ...

The role of frequent morbidity in the early formation chronic pathology children is known. risk chronicity due to influence a complex factors that give antigenic loads, prevalence contingent frequently and long-term ill children. During their clinical examination, maximum shift allergic changes reactivity falls on age period from 4 6 years. foci infection observed mainly at 7-10

Heart failure disease has been one of the major chronic cardiovascular diseases that cause morbidity, mortality, and hospitalization all cardiac patients. a significantly increased lifetime risk development is about 20%. Symptomatic predictions are usually non-specific hardly can discriminate occurrence heart from other diseases. It represents challenging problem because its economical medical ...

A growing body of research suggests that anemia is independently associated with morbidity and mortality in the general population as well as in patients with chronic diseases where the prevalence of anemia is high (1-4). Anemia prognosis depends on the underlying cause of the anemia. However, the severity of the anemia, its etiology, and the rapidity with which it develops can each play a sign...

Chronic kidney disease is a global public health problem. Patients with chronic kidney disease have an increased risk of developing end-stage kidney disease and its complications. Early identification and management of patients with chronic kidney disease is important in order to decrease the morbidity and mortality. Early detection of chronic kidney disease is possible with screening programs ...

BACKGROUND Qualifying the relationship between multi-morbidity, health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and depressive symptoms in primary care can help to inform the development of appropriate interventions and services which can help to enhance HRQOL in patients with chronic disease. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether the physical aspect of HRQOL mediates the rela...

in a survey of the population of behbahan city, carried out in years 1990-91, the mean age was approximated up to 15.2 and 17.5 in the villages and the city, respectively. furthermore, about 27.4% and 27.9% of the corresponding populations were under 5 years of age. the birth rate in the urban and rural areas was about 31.2 and 33.3 per thousand live births. mortality rate related to the immatu...