Multimorbiditaet

English translation: multi-morbidity

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German term or phrase:Multimorbiditaet
English translation:multi-morbidity
Entered by: Dawn Montague

18:19 Jan 24, 2001
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical
German term or phrase: Multimorbiditaet
Multimorbidity? Is this correct in English?

Context: Typisch fuer den aelteren Menschen ist, dass nicht nur ein Organ, sondern mehrere in ihrer Funktion eingeschraenkt sind. Man nennt diesen Zustand Multimorbiditaet.
Dawn Montague
United States
Local time: 16:04
multi-morbidity
Explanation:
yes!

for some information related to it please see:
http://www.google.com/search?q=multi-morbidity&hl=en&lr=&saf...

you will find quite a lot of different articles about it. For example:

article-geriatrics
... must reckon with a multi-factor aging process and with a geriatric patient with
multi-morbidity, the treatment must be multi-layered, if not to say it should ...
www.shanahazee.com/~healthimed/article-geriatrics/page4.htm

London 21 to 29
... patient requiring home care is female, 79 years old, suffering from multi-morbidity.
Although the main reason for their helplessness is degenerative brain ...
www.synapse.net.mt/egprw/london3t.htm

Herbal Medicine
... Bernhöft, G. Bartsch. 1987. [Treatment of stenocardia (Angina pectoris) pain in
advanced age patients with multi-morbidity] [In German]. Therapiewoche 37:3587 ...
www.herbalgram.org/herbal_e/hawthorn.html

etc,etc...

Hope it helps!
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Elisa Capelão
Local time: 21:04
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multi-morbidity


Explanation:
See the following study:
Morbidity and Multi-Morbidity in Australia: Evidence from the National Health Surveys

There is thus the possibility that several diseases appear at the
same time; this is the so-called "multi-morbidity".

OR:
As the attending doctor must reckon with a multi-factor aging process and with a geriatric patient with multi-morbidity, the treatment must be multi-layered,



    Internet, experience
Annie Robberecht, C. Tr.
Local time: 22:04
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 126
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multi-morbidity


Explanation:
yes!

for some information related to it please see:
http://www.google.com/search?q=multi-morbidity&hl=en&lr=&saf...

you will find quite a lot of different articles about it. For example:

article-geriatrics
... must reckon with a multi-factor aging process and with a geriatric patient with
multi-morbidity, the treatment must be multi-layered, if not to say it should ...
www.shanahazee.com/~healthimed/article-geriatrics/page4.htm

London 21 to 29
... patient requiring home care is female, 79 years old, suffering from multi-morbidity.
Although the main reason for their helplessness is degenerative brain ...
www.synapse.net.mt/egprw/london3t.htm

Herbal Medicine
... Bernhöft, G. Bartsch. 1987. [Treatment of stenocardia (Angina pectoris) pain in
advanced age patients with multi-morbidity] [In German]. Therapiewoche 37:3587 ...
www.herbalgram.org/herbal_e/hawthorn.html

etc,etc...

Hope it helps!


    see above
Elisa Capelão
Local time: 21:04
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in pair: 117
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