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Risk factors such as a person's background; lifestyle and environment are known to increase the likelihood of certain non-communicable diseases. They include age, gender, genetics, exposure to air pollution, and behaviors such as smoking, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity which can lead to hypertension and obesity, in turn leading to increased risk of many NCDs.
Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP), or noninfectious pneumonia [1] are a class of diffuse lung diseases. These diseases typically affect the pulmonary interstitium , although some also have a component affecting the airways (for instance, cryptogenic organizing pneumonitis ).
Also called silent disease, silent stage, or asymptomatic disease. This is a stage in some diseases before the symptoms are first noted. [23] Terminal phase If a person will die soon from a disease, regardless of whether that disease typically causes death, then the stage between the earlier disease process and active dying is the terminal phase.
An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable disease, is an illness resulting from an infection. Infections can be caused by a wide range of pathogens, most prominently bacteria and viruses. [2] Hosts can fight infections using their immune systems.
Respiratory virus season is officially here in the U.S., making it a prime time to catch a cold. And because the average adult gets two or three colds a year, you could be dealing with an ...
Cryptosporidium is a parasite that causes a condition called cryptosporidiosis. This leads to watery diarrhea, per the CDC. Cryptosporidium can live in water, food, soil, or on infected surfaces ...
Tenosynovitis is the inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath (called the synovium) that surrounds a tendon, typically leading to joint pain, swelling, and stiffness. Tenosynovitis can be either infectious or noninfectious.
There is a wide spectrum of noninfectious gastrointestinal pathology and inflammation in CVID that is a part of the general immune dysregulation affecting patients with CVID. The most common upper gastrointestinal inflammation is chronic gastritis, which may in rare cases develop to gastric cancer , and duodenal inflammation resembling celiac ...