Recognising obesity as a chronic disease with severe complications rather than a lifestyle choice "should help reduce the stigma and discrimination experienced by many people with obesity," he adds.

认识到肥胖是一种伴有严重并发症的慢性疾病，而不是一种生活方式的选择，“应该有助于减少许多肥胖人士所经历的耻辱和歧视。”他补充道。

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Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae.

麻风是由一种细菌，即麻风分枝杆菌引起的慢性疾病。

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Arthritis is a chronic disease.

关节炎是一种慢性病。

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Dr.James Hospedales is a chronic disease expert at the WHO.

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Chronic diseases have a major role in the healthcare costs, so if you look at these chronic diseases, heart disease, stroke, cancer and Diabetes we find that seven out of ten of all deaths are now due to chronic diseases, whereas, it was a very small fraction in 1900.

慢性疾病是医保费用中的一个大头,你看看这些慢性疾病,心脏病,中风,癌症和糖尿病,就会发现如今十分之七的死亡,都是源于慢性疾病,然而,这在1900年仅占很小一部分

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Reagan hopes that someday it will be possible to change the status of Alzheimer's from the lethal condition that destroyed his father's mind, to a chronic disease that victims and their families can manage with dignity and even hope.

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For a chronic disease drug in an therapeutic category where good treatments already exist, this is challenging.

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While asthma is a chronic disease with genetic roots, the triggers are environmental and can be substantially prevented.

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Italy's economic illness is not the acute sort, but a chronic disease that slowly gnaws away at vitality.

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