Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

The term chronic is often applied when the causes of diseases last for more than three months. A disease is an abnormal condition that affects part or all of an organism not caused by external force. And the consists of a disorder of a structure or function usually serving as an evolutionary disadvantage. In humans diseases is often used more broadly to refer to any condition causes pain in the body, distress, social problems. Diseases can affect people not only physically but emotionally, as contracting and living with a disease can alter the affected person's perspective life. Death due diseases is called death by nature causes. There are four main types of diseases infectious diseases, deficiency diseases, genetic diseases and psychological diseases. Diseases can also be classified as communicable diseases and Non-communicable diseases. In this boarder sense it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities disorder, syndromes, infectious, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, alcoholism. Drinking is sometimes caused by disease of the brain.

Alcoholic is a chronic problem too. Chronic diseases are persistent or otherwise long lasting in its effects or simply called as a disease which comes with time. Chronic conditions have often being used to describe the various health related stats of the human body. Additional some socioeconomic factors may be considered as a chronic condition disability as they lead to daily life. Hence chronic are a significant burden to economy through limitations in daily activities. And common chronic diseases are arthritis, asthma, obesity, cancer, diabetes, viral diseases, such as hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.

         Chronic diseases constitute a major cause of mortality in WHO. Chronic diseases like stroke and heart diseases and cancer are the leading causes of death. The two most common chronic conditions in the elderly are high blood pressure, arthritis with diabetes. Coronary heart diseases and cancer also being reported among the elder population. Though the ratings of chronic diseases differ by race for these living with chronic illness, it is interesting to note that the statistics for leading cause of death among the elderly nearly identical across racial/ethnic group.

Chronic diseases are a major factor in the continuous growth of medical care spending.

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