Pollution from them causes chronic and acute respiratory ailments and premature death, and it contributes to global warming.
Doses may be chronic or acute depending upon the duration of exposure.
This touched the heart of the matter, for if he was guilty as charged, Harold Shipman undoubtedly had a chronic and acute impulse control problem.
Chronic disease management, acute care services and preventative care are all available at a face value, affordable price.
But subsequent medical tests cleared him of any acute or chronic arsenic poisoning.
The first is the ever-more-pronounced shift in the burden of disease among the U.S. population from acute to chronic conditions.
Novartis also has a new anti-inflammatory, Prexige, for acute and chronic pain.
The real challenge for pharmaceutical companies is coming up with new blockbuster drugs for chronic disease, not acute outbreaks like swine flu.
The upside to its story, he says, comes as the company transitions from the current cosmetic-and-reconstructive surgery approach to regenerative medicine specifically in the area of both acute and chronic cardiovascular disease.
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But death came in three causal definitions: acute, chronic or wholly attributable to alcohol, and it turns out that there are statistically significant increases in deaths as well as decreases depending on the quarter and the definition of cause.
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The financial markets are signaling that the acute phase of the euro-zone financial crisis may be over and the crisis may be shifting into a chronic phase or more precisely, a chronic phase with likely acute interludes in which panic escalates.
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There are two types of forces in the world: the acute and the chronic.
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We are obsessed with the acute, but the chronic is far more powerful.
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The court accepted that he carried out the crime during an acute attack of the chronic paranoid schizophrenia that he suffered and accepted that he was not criminally responsible owing to his mental illness.
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India's democracy responds quickly to acute crises, but allows chronic problems to fester for too long.
Italy's economic illness is not the acute sort, but a chronic disease that slowly gnaws away at vitality.
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Right now, the dollar problem is chronic and debilitating, but it could become acute and economically life threatening at any moment.
"For millions of Somalis, already weakened by chronic food insecurity and persistently high levels of acute malnutrition, the shocks were catastrophic, " said the report.
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Pain medications have a greater indication and acceptance when used for acute pain rather than long-term chronic pain, where the evidence to support their benefits is lacking.
In a recent survey conducted by U.N. agencies, the prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children was 27.9% and acute malnutrition was 4%.
This is a feasible mechanism by which manuka honey minimizes the initiation of acute wound infections and also the establishment of chronic infections.
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Some people do have an immune reaction causing chronic (long-term) pancreatitis, which is very different from painful acute pancreatitis.
Chronic inflammation, however, can be a problem (as in arthritis) and acute inflammation in the form of toxic shock is life-threatening.
Loneliness can affect anyone, but it is especially acute for aging parents who must cope with limited driving, disability, chronic diseases and other problems that can limit participation in social opportunities.
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