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  2. Epidemiological transition - Wikipedia

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    The Age of Degenerative and Man-Made Diseases: Mortality continues to decline and eventually approaches stability at a relatively low level. Mortality is increasingly related to degenerative diseases, cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, violence, accidents, and substance abuse, some of these due primarily to human behavior patterns. The ...

  3. Taking longer to get to REM sleep could indicate Alzheimer's ...

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    The authors of the current study wanted to understand more about the timing of REM sleep and its relationship to Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

  4. Progressive disease - Wikipedia

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    Not all chronic diseases are progressive: a chronic, non-progressive disease may be referred to as a static condition. Progressive disease can also be a clinical endpoint i.e. an endpoint in a clinical trial. A progressive disease should not be confused with a terminal disease, the difference being that a terminal disease invariably leads to death.

  5. WHO disease staging system for HIV infection and disease

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    It is an approach for use in resource limited settings and is widely used in Africa and Asia and has been a useful research tool in studies of progression to symptomatic HIV disease. Most of these conditions are opportunistic infections that are easily treated in healthy people. The staging system is different for adults and adolescents and ...

  6. Progression-free survival - Wikipedia

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    Progression-free survival (PFS) is "the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse". [1] In oncology , PFS usually refers to situations in which a tumor is present, as demonstrated by laboratory testing, radiologic testing, or clinically.

  7. Epidemic curve - Wikipedia

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    An epidemic curve, also known as an epi curve or epidemiological curve, is a statistical chart used in epidemiology to visualise the onset of a disease outbreak. It can help with the identification of the mode of transmission of the disease. It can also show the disease's magnitude, whether cases are clustered or if there are individual case ...

  8. Natural history of disease - Wikipedia

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    The subclinical (pre-symptomatic) and clinical (symptomatic) evolution of disease is the natural progression of a disease without any medical intervention. It constitutes the course of biological events that occurs during the development of the origin of the diseases [4] to its outcome, whether that be recovery, chronicity, or death. [5]

  9. Geographic atrophy - Wikipedia

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    Fundus of geographic atrophy. Geographic atrophy (GA), also known as atrophic age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or advanced dry AMD, is an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration that can result in the progressive and irreversible loss of retinal tissue (photoreceptors, retinal pigment epithelium, choriocapillaris) which can lead to a loss of central vision over time.