Luckily, I had not yet developed what the doctors like to refer to as co-morbidities.

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"It's best described as a tsunami of obesity-related morbidities that's coming down the track in just five to 10 years, " Dr Ryan said.

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They found ways to avoid patients who were less likely to survive after surgery, minority patients, for example, or patients with lots of other illnesses, what doctors call co-morbidities .

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The panel met to evaluate use of the novel device in patients with significant symptomatic mitral regurgitation (MR) who have been determined by a cardiac surgeon to be too high risk for open mitral valve surgery and in whom existing co-morbidities would not preclude the expected benefit from correction of the MR.

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In addition, we continue to work closely with Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander professional and advocacy groups to support health initiatives and research through agencies including NIH, CDC, SAMHSA, and HRSA. Our Office of Minority Health (OMH) has a long history of working with AANHPI organizations and works closely with Guam and other Pacific jurisdictions on prevention and testing for HIV, sexually transmitted infections and other co-morbidities.

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