BACKGROUND This study illustrates the perceptions and meanings that patients who have had the onset of certain chronic diseases at young adulthood ascribe to their condition of chronic illness. The paper further examines the implications of such perceptions and construction for medical care. DESIGN Qualitative and ethnography. SETTING Outpatient chronically ill patients were recruited from ...

to investigate the correlation between il-8 (-251 a/t) gene polymorphism and susceptibility to chronic periodontitis as well as different clinical parameters and severity of the condition in patients referred to dental school, shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran.in this randomized cross sectional study, 227 non-smoking patients with chronic periodontitis (test) and 40 healthy in...

As defined by WHO experts, disease involves a change of the physical, mental and social welfare, generating chronic stress condition if unresolved. One of the symptoms almost constantly found in any condition is pain. This feeling manifests differently depending on the subjective perception. The burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is included in such a framework. The BMS is considered as one of the ch...

INTRODUCTION Little is known about how combinations of chronic conditions in adults affect total health care expenditures. Our objective was to estimate the annual average total expenditures and out-of-pocket spending burden among US adults by combinations of conditions. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study using 2009 and 2011 data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. The sample...

Chronic orchialgia is a vexing condition defined as chronic or intermittent scrotal pain lasting at least three months that significantly interferes with daily activities. There are currently no guidelines regarding the diagnosis and management of this condition despite it being the cause of 2.5-4.8% of urologic clinic visits. Men often present with chronic orchialgia in their mid to late 30s, ...

‘COPD in Primary Care’ is a compilation of essential knowledge on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a health condition and its treatment within the primary care setting in the UK. COPD is a chronic condition that causes progressive obstruction of the airflows increasing continuously shortness of breath and is, by definition, irreversible. Anita Sharma, an enthusiastic, practicing general...

In June 2014 a group of dermatologists met in Madrid to reflect on our specialty’s role in managing a highly prevalent skin disease: chronic urticaria. The reflections were motivated by the advances in the diagnosis and therapeutic management of this condition that have emerged over the last 5 years. Patients with chronic urticaria develop wheals, angioedema, or both almost daily, and their dis...

Chronic granuloma of the small intestine was first described by Coombe and Saunders in I813. One hundred years later, Dalziel recognized a condition of chronic interstitial enteritis which was not tuberculous in origin. Regional ileitis, however, did not really come into prominence until 1932, when Crohn, Ginzburg, and Oppenheimer gave it this name, and it is now more popularly known as Crohn's...