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Write true or false for the following statements :

Chronic diseases have very drastic long-term effects on people’s health as compared to acute diseases.

True

Chronic diseases last for a long time (Eg; Elephantiasis) or may even last for an entire lifetime. Thus, they have drastic effect on people’s health as compared to acute infections which are short term.


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The diseases which last for only short periods of time are called chronic diseases.

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Any disease that causes poor functioning of some part of the body will not affect our general health.

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All diseases have immediate and contributory causes. Most of the diseases will have many causes, rather than one single cause.

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High blood pressure and cancer have mostly external causes and are generally caused by infectious agents.