Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases: a Current Look at the Challenge by Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés

“…Providing quality health services to address these chronic diseases is a priority of institutions and professionals in the field.…”
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Attitudes of Doctors and Nurses toward the Chronic Care Model by Rolando Bonal Ruiz, Meibis Poll Cabrera

“…<strong>Background:</strong> the fact that chronic diseases replace traditional causes of morbidity and mortality in a country, or are on a par with major common health problems, demands the development of new strategies to address them. …”
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Multimorbidity transitions and the associated healthcare cost among the Finnish adult population during a two-year follow-up by Katja Wikström, Miika Linna, Eeva Reissell, Tiina Laatikainen

“…Background Ageing of the population increases the prevalence and coexistence of many chronic diseases; a condition called multimorbidity. In Finland, information on the significance of multimorbidity and its relation to the sustainability of healthcare is scarce. …”
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Smoking. Addiction that Causes more Deaths than AIDS by Emiliano Nicolás Diez y Martínez de la Cotera

“…We describe the direct link between smoking and some chronic diseases such as lung cancer and ischemic heart disease. …”
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Nutritional Quality, Potential Health Promoting Properties and Sensory Perception of an Improved Gluten Free Bread Formulation Containing Inulin, Rice Protein and Bioactive Compoun... by Alessandro Guglielmetti, Beatriz Fernandez-Gomez, Giuseppe Zeppa, Dolores del Castillo

“…The present study aimed to improve the formulation of a gluten-free commercial bread-making premix by adding inulin, rice protein and extracts of coffee by-products (silverskin and husk) to obtain healthier products enriched in protein and dietary fiber with the potential to reduce the risk of chronic diseases. The new formulation combines well-known and novel food ingredients. …”
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Secretary bird optimization algorithm based on quantum computing and multiple strategies improvement for KELM diabetes classification by Yu Zhu, Mingxu Zhang, Qinchuan Huang, Xianbo Wu, Li Wan, Ju Huang

“…Diabetes is one of the chronic diseases with a high prevalence worldwide and is considered a disease in its own right. …”
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Cyclin-dependent protein kinases and cell cycle regulation in biology and disease by Ilenia Pellarin, Alessandra Dall’Acqua, Andrea Favero, Ilenia Segatto, Valentina Rossi, Nicole Crestan, Javad Karimbayli, Barbara Belletti, Gustavo Baldassarre

“…Finally, we discuss how CDKs inhibitors have become standard therapies in selected human cancers and propose novel ways of investigation to export their targeting from cancer to other relevant chronic diseases. We hope that the effort we made in collecting all available information on both the prominent and lesser-known CDK family members will help in identify and develop novel areas of research to improve the lives of patients affected by debilitating chronic diseases.…”
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Evaluating the World Health Organization’s Hearts Model for Hypertension and Diabetes Management: A Pilot Implementation Study in Guatemala by Irmgardt Alicia Wellmann, Luis Fernando Ayala, Taryn M. Valley, Vilma Irazola, Mark D. Huffman, Michele Heisler, Peter Rohloff, Rocío Donis, Eduardo Palacios, Manuel Ramírez-Zea, David Flood

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Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients by Fahad Saeed, Nikhil Agrawal, Eugene Greenberg, Jean L. Holley

“…Blood losses in this patient population can be quite severe at times and it is important to differentiate anemia of chronic diseases from anemia due to GI bleeding. We review the literature on common causes of lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGI) in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. …”
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Characterization of patients with clinical suspicion of dengue and warning signs. Pediatric Hospital. Cienfuegos, 2019 by Delfín Rodríguez Buergo, Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Diana Rosa Rodríguez Delgado, Roxana Gutiérrez Morán, Lisset María Martínez González

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: female sex and preschool ages predominated, as well as normal weight (95.1%). 26.8% suffered from chronic diseases. Patients admitted more than 48 hours after the beginning of symptoms predominated. …”
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Patient and caregiver perspectives of select non-communicable diseases in India: A scoping review. by Sindhu Nila, Eliza Dutta, S S Prakash, Sophy Korula, Anu Mary Oommen

“…Health system reforms are needed to improve access to high-quality care for treatment and palliation of cancer and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes.…”
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Study on Influencing Factors and Countermeasures of Elderly Nursing Services in the Elderly by Shuo Liu, Li Chen, Dandan Li, Qianqian Yang, Fangfang Liu, Yanli Cheng

“…In addition, with the fast pace of life, many elderly people with chronic diseases, poor physical conditions, and need spiritual comfort are in a state of lack of care for a long time. …”
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Health Indicators of US Older Adults Who Received or Did Not Receive Meals Funded by the Older Americans Act by Edgar R. Vieira, Joan A. Vaccaro, Gustavo G. Zarini, Fatma G. Huffman

“…The Older Americans Act (OAA) requires that nutrition programs provide meals and related nutrition services that promote health and help manage chronic diseases. The purpose of this study was to compare health status, food security, functional limitations, and chronic diseases of older adults who received or did not receive OAA meals using data from a representative sample of US adults. …”
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Immune Responses to Tissue-Restricted Nonmajor Histocompatibility Complex Antigens in Allograft Rejection by Ankit Bharat, T. Mohanakumar

“…Chronic diseases that result in end-stage organ damage cause inflammation, which can reveal sequestered self-antigens (SAgs) in that organ and trigger autoimmunity. …”
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Insulin- Therapy in Children Under Five Years. by Hussimy Marchena Morera, Alina Esther González Hermida

“…Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 is one of the chronic diseases with higher prevalence rate in infancy. …”
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Multiple sclerosis and neuropsychiatric disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Literature review by K. Brasas, V. Lileikytė, D. Mickevičienė

“…However, a decrease in human contact and visits to doctors has led to another problem in patients with chronic diseases, especially those with multiple sclerosis, such as worsening of neuropsychological status, depression, increased stress levels, insomnia, and decreased physical activity. …”
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Respiratory disease detection in lung auscultation with convolutional neural networks and CVAE augmentation by D.V. Panaskin, S.H. Stirenko, D.S. Babko

“…The dataset includes lung auscultations of 126 different subjects, there are a total of 920 sounds, of which 810 have signs of chronic diseases, 75 of non-chronic diseases and 35 with no pathology. …”
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Characteristics of self-management among patients with complex health needs: a thematic analysis review by Catherine Hudon, Maud-Christine Chouinard, Annie-Pier Gobeil-Lavoie, Alya Danish

“…Objective There is a gap of knowledge among healthcare providers on characteristics of self-management among patients with chronic diseases and complex healthcare needs. Consequently, the objective of this paper was to identify characteristics of self-management among patients with chronic diseases and complex healthcare needs.Design Thematic analysis review of the literature.Methods We developed search strategies for the MEDLINE and CINAHL databases, covering the January 2000–October 2018 period. …”
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Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of functional impairment in community-dwelling older adults in China: a cross-sectional study by Yun Li, Li Zhang, Zhe Tang, Lina Ma, Pan Liu, Xiaxia Li, Wenhua Yu, Yaxin Zhang

“…Illiteracy, no spouse, living alone, poor self-reported health, low income, limited meat intake, less exercise, chronic diseases and geriatric syndromes were associated with functional impairment. …”
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Autoimmune Chronic Active Hepatitis (Lupoid Hepatitis) and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis in Two Young Adult Females by Gerald Y. Minuk, Lloyd R. Sutherland, S. Chris Pappas, James K. Kelly, Sue E. Martin

“…Autoimmune chronic active hepatitis (CAH) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) arc chronic diseases of the hepatobiliary system that have many clinical, immunologic and genetic features in common. …”
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