Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Decline. In fact, he says, the elderly are "simply people who have been here longer" and are no less creative or mentally intact than anyone else. Though the elderly are more prone to chronic diseases, they get fewer acute illnesses than the general population; a person over 65 has an average of 1.3 acute illnesses a year, compared with 2.1 a year for all ages. Comfort cites a Duke University study showing that about half of a group of people over 65 who returned for periodic checkups had no detectable physical decline over periods ranging from three to 13 years...
...promptly insisted that there was no link between the deaths and the vaccine. They pointed out that the average age of these 35 people was 71.2 years. At the time the deaths were the only ones among some 1 million people 65 or older and, in some cases, chronically ill (the group that has top priority in the vaccination program), who had received shots. Yet during any single 24-hour period, there are some 16 deaths in this age bracket among every 100,000 Americans. The gist of the official argument was clear: a similar survey of deaths among...
...chronic insomniac, just a sometimes insomniac," Joe claims, but if you had witnessed his marathon bout with sleepless nights, you might begin to wonder just where he draws the distinction. It all began with the none-too-uncommon catalyst: second semester freshman year, the last hourlies before exam period, a semester already marred by negligence and procrastination, and four really rough courses. Then to add wood to the fire we've got the snoring roommate on the upper bunk. Sure, amidst anxiety-ridden times and uncontrollable circumstances, we are all afflicted with the inability to fall asleep for awhile...
...ever since high school. She used to fall asleep doing homework on the kitchen table at five in the morning. In those days, she didn't begin work until 2 a.m. because there were other important matters to attend to before starting homework. She also had her mother, a chronic insomniac, to keep her company when she worked until sunrise...
...last night Stephen C. Schoenbaum, assistant professor of Medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham, Hospital and one of the study's directors, said, "I would prefer to immunize young adults under 25 only if they have some chronic illness...