1.   As controls, cryptogenic cases of chronic liver disease - that is without ANA-H or SMA-AA, were similarly studied.

2.   Certainly such pressures and demands point to the need to make both prevention and treatment of chronic diseases a priority.

3.   Chronic disease is sometimes seen as an inevitable part of being old.

4.   Discussion Portal hypertension usually complicates the evolution of chronic liver diseases.

5.   Eventually the recovery becomes incomplete and we can see the gradual emergence of chronic disease.

6.   Plainly not everyone has to be subject to chronic disease.

7.   The poor die young - before they can contract the chronic diseases that dearly cost national health schemes.

8.   The women featured in the article are reducing their risk of chronic disease by exercising and by eating a balanced diet.