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The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.

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The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.

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The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.

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An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.

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Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.

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The sickness rate of a population.

The perinatal morbidity was significantly higher in the GM group.

Perinatal morbidity is associated with infections, reactions to anesthesia agents, blood clots, and bleeding.

Although many of these behaviors are health-promoting, some are health-compromising, resulting in increasingly high rates of adolescent morbidity and mortality.

Children living in inner cities, low-income populations, and minorities have disproportionately higher morbidity and mortality due to asthma.

Children between 0 to five and pregnant women are population groups at highest risk for malaria morbidity and mortality.

Many of the surviving preterm infants suffer serious morbidity.

Only one trial was designed to measure postoperative morbidity.

Overall benefit is only achieved when perioperative morbidity and mortality is less than 3% .

The mortality and morbidity associated with umbilical cord prolapse.

Factors associated with mortality and morbidity in small intestinal volvulus in the horse.

An Apgar score of 0-3 at 20 minutes of age, for example, is indicative of high rates of morbidity (disease) and mortality (death).

Interestingly, there has not been a reported reduction in perinatal morbidity in the United States with the use of EFM.

They are second only to acute infections as a cause of acute morbidity and doctor visits.

Hyper-IgM syndrome is a disorder with a high degree of morbidity, which means that patients diagnosed with it often suffer from other diseases or disorders.

The prognosis for children diagnosed with XHIM is poor as of the early 2000s; morbidity and mortality for this disorder are significantly higher than for other primary immunodeficiency disorders.

It may be helpful to remember how rare botulism is, how easy it is to assure food safety, and also that morbidity and mortality can be avoided with early recognition of the symptoms.

There is no means to prevent amebiasis, a disease that ia a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality.

It may only require a loop colostomy or dividing adhesions, but surgery can have a significant mortality and morbidity.

The inflammatory mass around the cholecystocolic fistula in the right upper quadrant was left undisturbed to minimize operative morbidity.

However there is no proof that routine intubation of all very preterm babies leads to decreased morbidity.

These data were compared with data from the second national survey of psychiatric morbidity in adults living at home.

There were no post-operative deaths in either group and the post-operative morbidity and hospital stay were comparable.

Together with patient history and potential underlying co morbidity factors this may lead to a provisional diagnosis of PG.

To achieve the lowest possible childhood death rate and to minimize childhood morbidity from sickle cell disorders.

Cardiovascular disease remains the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in most of the Western world and in Scotland in particular.

Awaiting the onset of labor appears to be beneficial in preventing respiratory morbidity in term neonates delivered by elective cesarean section.

Early surgery may therefore reduce the morbidity associated with frequent seizures through the teenage years.