Word: chronically
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...revolutionary in a deeper sense as well: it represents a profound change in the way medical science looks at obesity. "There is an increasing consensus," says Dr. Michael Lowe, a weight- control expert at Philadelphia's Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, "that obesity is at least a chronic condition and maybe even a chronic disease that is in many ways indistinguishable from diabetes and hypertension...
...drugs have also drastically altered the outlook for panic disorder, a chronic illness characterized by recurrent panic attacks and a lifetime of fear in between. The symptoms of an attack--among them palpitations, breathlessness, sweating, dizziness, tingling sensations, hot flashes or chills, as well as a sense of impending doom--seem so dire and life-threatening that patients frequently turn up in emergency rooms convinced they are having a heart attack or going insane. Thirty percent of the 2.4 million Americans with panic disorder go on to develop agoraphobia, the fear of leaving home lest they succumb to panic...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, which affects 1% to 3% of Americans, was until recently considered a chronic, untreatable condition. Victims more ordinary than Lady Macbeth and Howard Hughes are haunted by persistent, intrusive thoughts or worries (obsessions), and may spend countless hours performing repetitive rituals (compulsions) such as hand washing, counting, hoarding old clothes, arranging napkins in a meaningless symmetry or checking a hundred times to make sure the electric coffeemaker is turned off. Themes of dirt, contamination or germs rule their thoughts, and other common obsessions center on horrific or violent images, a need for symmetry or exactness...
...CHRONIC FATIGUE...
Feeling tired? Can't concentrate? Lethargic? Achy? Until a few years ago, doctors probably would have suggested a good night's sleep. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delineated the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome in 1994, however, it has become clear that not all cases of exhaustion can be cured with rest. With CFS, fatigue continues for months or years, along with flulike symptoms of joint pain, headaches and muddled thinking. The cause of CFS still eludes doctors, but studies show that sometimes the culprit may be low blood pressure. In such cases, when CFS patients...