Word: chronicic
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...such as rickets and beriberi. That occurred in the first half of the century. Now we're on the second wave. You don't need to take vitamin C to prevent scurvy in this country today. But you could need it for optimal health and the prevention of some chronic disease...
Another driving force in the U.S. is the new "demographic imperative." With a rapidly aging population, America has moved its medical focus from treating acute illness to caring for chronic maladies like heart disease and cancer -- a shift that has sent health-care costs skyward. "There's a growing appreciation of the need to find the most economical way to treat and prevent chronic disease," notes Dr. Charles Butterworth Jr. of the University of Alabama. "Food and vitamins are not that expensive." Calculates Tufts' Blumberg: "We could save billions of dollars if we could delay the onset of - chronic diseases...
...boost the immune system in healthy old people, raising the possibility that supplements could help thwart life-threatening infections. The nutrient may also turn out to be a potent lung saver, warding off the depredations of cigarette smoke, car exhaust and other pollutants. "The effects of air pollution are chronic," says Dr. Daniel Menzel of the University of California at Irvine. "Over a lifetime people develop serious diseases like bronchitis and emphysema. We have fed animals in our labs vitamin E and have found that they have fewer lung lesions and that they live longer." Menzel suggests that priming children...
Virtually all experts agree that a daily multivitamin won't hurt anybody. Opinion is divided, however, about whether people should be taking high doses of vitamins to prevent chronic disease or delay aging. Some argue that enough evidence is in to justify taking moderately high amounts of antioxidants. Several researchers admit they are already doing...
Some abandoned patients are merely frail and suffer from the complications of chronic diseases such as diabetes. But more are clearly demented. They show up in emergency rooms with acute problems like dehydration. Elderly people who live alone are sometimes so desperate for help that they in effect abandon themselves. Others are dumped not by relatives but by landlords and even household employees. In Greenville, N.C., a 65-year-old alcoholic woman materialized on the doorstep of the Pitt County Memorial Hospital after she was shoved out of a car by a fed-up and weary maid...