Chronic diseases are diseases of long duration and generally slow progression. Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, are by far the leading cause of mortality in the world, representing 60% of all deaths. Out of the 35 million people who died from chronic disease in 2005, half were under 70 and half were women.

Chronic disease simply means persistent or recurring disease, usually affecting a person for three months or longer. A chronic disease is generally one that is hereditary or one that is the result of factors such as poor diet and living conditions, using tobacco or other harmful substances, or a sedentary lifestyle. Such a disease is not typically contracted from another person by contagion, because most chronic illnesses are not caused by infection. The term chronic disease commonly applies to conditions that can be treated but not necessarily cured.

LIST OF CHRONIC DISEASES:

1. Addison’s Disease
2. Asthma
3. Bipolar Mood Disorder
4. Bronchiectasis
5. Cardiac Failure
6. Cariomyopathy
7. Chronic Renal Disease
8. Coronary Artery Disease
9. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder
10. Chrohn’s Disease
11. Diabetes Insipidus
12. Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 & 2
13. Dysrhythmias
14. Epilepsy
15. Glaucoma
16. Haemophilia
17. Hyperlipidaemia
18. Hypertension
19. Hypothyroidism
20. Multiple Sclerosis
21. Parkinson’s Disease
22. Rheumatoid Arthritis
23. Schizophrenia
24. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
25. Ulcerative Colitis.
26. Anaemia
27. Anterior horn cell disorders
28. Anxiety
29. Attention deficit disorder
30. Carcinoma of a life threatening type
31. Clotting Disorder
32. Cerebrovascular Accident
33. Chronic Dyspepsia
34. Chronic rhinitis / sinusitis
35. Chronic vertigo
36. Collagen disease
37. Cushings disease
38. Cystic Fibrosis
39. Depression
40. Eczema
41. Endometriosis
42. Gout
43. Hiatus Hernia / Oesophageal reflux
44. Hyperthyroidism
45. Hypotension
46. Irritable bowel syndrome / Spastic Colon
47. Malabsorption syndromes
48. Hormone Replacement Therapy
49. Minimal brain dysfunction
50. Neuromuscular disorders – Myasthenia gravis
51. Neurogenic bladder
52. Neuropathy
53. Osteo arthritis
54. Osteoporosis
55. Peripheral vascular disease
56. Prostatic hypertrophy
57. Psoriasis
58. Pituitary disorders
59. Recurrent cystitis
60. Vascular headaches