What are considered comorbid conditions?
What are considered comorbid conditions?
Comorbidity is a medical term that you may have heard your doctor use. It describes the existence of more than one disease or condition within your body at the same time. Comorbidities are usually long-term, or chronic. They may or may not interact with each other.
What is an example of comorbidity?
Examples include diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure (hypertension), psychiatric disorders, or substance abuse. Comorbidities tend to increase a person’s need for health care and the cost of care while decreasing the person’s ability to function in the world.
What are types of medical conditions?
Chronic medical conditions
- Alzheimer’s disease.
- Arthritis.
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Depression.
- Diabetes.
- Heart disease.
- High blood pressure.
- High cholesterol.
What is special medical condition?
A special medical condition may include the following: diabetes, seizures, or a severe life-threatening allergy. A nurse will meet with you and make an individual health plan for your child if needed. This written health plan will include input from the parent, the nurse, and the child’s physician.
Is asthma considered comorbidity?
Some people with asthma have other chronic and long-term conditions. This is called ‘comorbidity’, which describes any additional disease that is experienced by a person with a disease of interest (the index disease).
Is arthritis a comorbidity?
Comorbidities are common among adults with rheumatic diseases like arthritis.
How many medical conditions are there?
The focus is really on rare diseases, but a credible case can be made that there are at least 10,000 diseases in the world, though there is likely more. And there are a bit over 500 treatments. So, as far as round numbers go, 10,000 diseases/500 treatments works as a talking point.
What does current medical status mean?
Refers to your medical conditions (both physical and mental health), claims experience, receipt of health care, medical history, genetic information, evidence of insurability, and disability.
What is the most common comorbidity among older adults?
The two most important risk factors underlying the most frequent chronic diseases of the elderly are tobacco use and obesity. The most important comorbidities are cardio- vascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases, particularly COPD.
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