2006 - Complexity of patients with multiple chronic diseases

Chronic diseases represent a huge proportion of human illness. They include cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes.

The main objectives of this Research Seminar are to discuss the:

  • burden of complex chronic co-morbidities and
  • relationship between markers of organ and systemic inflammation

The main educational aims are to:

  • define the most important and frequent co-morbidities in elderly patients, particularly those with COPD
  • provide updated information on the most common chronic disease, ie coronary and/or peripheral arterial diseases, systemic arterial hypertension, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • emphasise the limitations of single disease-oriented clinical practice guidelines, and the need for a more comprehensive "internistic" approach to patients with multiple chronic co-morbidities
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Speaker(s): S. Spiro (London, United Kingdom)

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