Question

Which disease is more harmful, acute, or chronic why? Give examples.

Answer 1

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury.
Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific symptoms and signs.

Step by step answer: Acute Disease:
Acute denotes that it is of short duration. The quantification of how much time constitutes "short" and "recent" varies by disease and by context. In addition, "acute" also often connotes two other meanings: sudden onset and severity, such as in acute myocardial infarction (AMI), where suddenness and severity are both established aspects of the meaning. They can happen again (as in recurrent pneumonia, that is, multiple acute pneumonia episodes), but they are not the same case ongoing for months or years (unlike chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Examples of acute diseases include appendicitis, acute leukemia, and strep throat, etc.
Chronic disease:
A chronic condition is a human health condition or disease that is persistent or otherwise long-lasting in its effects or a disease that comes with time. The term chronic is often applied when the course of the disease lasts for more than three months. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are the leading causes of death and disability. An illness that is lifelong because it ends in death is a terminal illness. Some chronic diseases are- heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, depression, type 2 diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, etc.
Chronic disease is a long-term disease and is more complicated than acute disease. Hence, chronic disease is more harmful than the acute disease.

Note: 3% of all deaths worldwide are from chronic conditions. Chronic diseases constitute a major cause of mortality, and the World Health Organization (WHO) attributes 38 million deaths a year to non-communicable diseases. Social determinants are important risk factors for chronic diseases.
Social factors, e.g., socioeconomic status, education level, and race/ethnicity, are a major cause of the disparities observed in the care of chronic disease. Lack of access and delay in receiving care results in worse outcomes for patients from minorities and underserved populations. Those barriers to medical care complicate patients monitoring and continuity in treatment.