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morbidity

[mawr-bid-i-tee] / mɔrˈbɪd ɪ ti /




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It can lead to significant morbidity or even mortality from encephalitis and pneumonia particularly in immunosuppressed persons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Heat exposure has been linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, especially among women, a major review, external of studies on the effects of heat exposure found.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

"Climate change is increasing the frequency of hot nights, which may independently contribute to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality by impairing sleep and autonomic recovery," he said.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026

"My fear is that we won't hear about it until the mortality and the morbidity significantly increases this next year," he added.

From Barron's ● Jan. 19, 2026

In this, the atmosphere, no matter how coarse, has a verve and an essential joviality that casts out morbidity.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Prof Mabbott said: "Living a lot longer, but suffering from the multiple morbidities that can accompany ageing, and in-and-out of hospital for another tissue transplant does not sound an attractive way to spend my retirement!"

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

"Adjuvant therapies, in this case senolytics, have the potential of becoming valuable and effective treatments targeting OSA-induced morbidities."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024

Scientists then started looking into underlying biological mechanisms that can cause long-term psychiatric morbidities.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023

“In terms of very sick people with covid, it’s almost exclusively elderly and people with a lot of morbidities or who are immunosuppressed,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2023

She trusted his affection, respected his cleverness, and instinctively guessed at his vanities and morbidities.

From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray


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