41.   In some ways, fatness is a sign of better health, since children who avoid chronic infections grow up to be larger.

42.   Long-term problems include chronic pelvic infections, keloids, abscesses, sterility, depression, anxiety, psychosis, sexual dysfunction, marital disharmony.

43.   The case was filed by Julie Duncan of Seattle, who said she suffered lung problems and chronic infections apparently related to secondhand smoke.

44.   The disease can strike in childhood, but not be detected, causing a chronic infection that simmers for decades until it destroys the liver, causing death.

45.   The study only looked at children who were candidates for tubes because of lingering fluid, not specifically to relieve chronic infections.

46.   Unlike its more severe cousins, hepatitis A causes no chronic infection.

47.   Chamorro traveled Saturday to Baltimore, Maryland, where doctors diagnosed her with a chronic spinal infection called osteomyelitis, hospital spokesman John Cramer said.

48.   The disease, for which there is no cure, creates a thick mucus that causes a chronic infection of the lungs.