11.   The risk to the elderly and those with chronic respiratory ailments is greater.

12.   These companies, sometimes using surveillance, are scrutizing AIDS patients claims with the same rigor they apply to sufferers of other chronic ailments.

13.   This is a chronic ailment, like diabetes.

14.   This is especially so for people who are elderly or who have chronic ailments.

15.   All of the dead were elderly people who suffered from chronic ailments such as asthma, said a spokeswoman for the health department of the Andalucia regional government.

16.   Also on Wednesday the Sindh High Court ordered the authorities to return Zardari to a Karachi hospital where he was being treated for a chronic back ailment.

17.   Asthma is a chronic ailment marked by wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing and tightness of the chest.

18.   He denied that the woman, who was a regular patient because of a chronic ailment, received amantadine too late.

19.   Most of those who have died have been elderly people suffering from chronic ailments exacerbated by the heat, she added.

20.   Shindo said many people suffering from chronic ailments such as high blood pressure and diabetes had lost their medication during the quake and urgently need replacement medicine.