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Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
This is a list of major and frequently observed neurological disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), symptoms (e.g., back pain), signs (e.g., aphasia) and syndromes (e ...
Chronic illnesses cause about 70% of deaths in the US and in 2002 chronic conditions (heart disease, cancers, stroke, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, mental illness and kidney diseases) were six of the top ten causes of mortality in the general US population.
The first-ever gene therapies for sickle cell disease—a painful, debilitating, and life-threatening blood disorder—received FDA approval on the same day last December, but it wasn’t until ...
This article provides a list of autoimmune diseases. These conditions, where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own cells, affect a range of organs and systems within the body. Each disorder is listed with the primary organ or body part that it affects and the associated autoantibodies that are typically found in people diagnosed ...
A 2009 study of patients with heart disease symptoms found 31.3 per cent of middle-aged women “received a mental health condition as the most certain diagnosis”, compared to just 15.6 per cent ...
Neurasthenia has been very rarely reported since the 21st century, and was deprecated in the World Health Organization's most recent International Classification of Diseases, known as the ICD-11. [7] Neurasthenia had previously been categorized as a psychological illness, [ 23 ] and originally as neurological.
Mike Greenberg was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation in 2015. The 57-year-old spent years dealing with debilitating symptoms and failed medications before undergoing a life-changing catheter ...