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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