In medicine, an acute disease is a disease with a rapid onset and or a short course.

The large number of often diverse actors creates acute coordination challenges, particularly during the first weeks of the response to a sudden onset disaster.

When it comes to immigration, politicians usually are driven by fear a tendency that has become even more acute since the onset of the global financial crisis.

A recent study conducted in China, including 862 patients who were between the second and tenth day after onset of acute stroke, is the largest truly randomized trial using death or dependency as the primary outcome.

Evidence of decline in lung function as measured by pulmonary function testing can occur as quickly as 24 hours of continuous exposure to 100 oxygen, with evidence of diffuse alveolar damage and the onset of acute respiratory distress syndrome usually occurring after 48 hours on 100 oxygen.

The onset of global warming, however, has changed everything.

Sami was diagnosed with acute depression.

Everywhere, long term unemployment became acute.

Latvia s example is the most acute.

Acute respiratory infections, shigellosis, diarrhoeal diseases.

(a) acute lethality toxicity (Chapter 3.1)

Teaching started at the onset of the academic year 1995 1996.

Intergovernmental processes at the onset of the Water for Life Decade

As genetics advances, more such late onset conditions will become detectable prenatally.

At the onset of clinical death, consciousness is lost within several seconds.

Before its onset, America s debt ridden consumers were the engine of global growth.

Modern societies are characterized by acute problems of belonging.

The acute crisis is over, at least for now.

Second, adjustment fatigue is widespread and becoming more acute.

Evidence is insufficient to support use in acute exacerbations.

These illnesses are more acute in women and children.

Global MapAid was formed with the aim of supplying specialist maps to humanitarian relief decision makers, predominantly for slow onset disasters such as famine, but also when necessary for rapid onset disasters such as floods.

Depending on disease onset and severity, type I patients may live well into adulthood.

Symptoms are typified by diarrhoea with fever, and acute enteritis.

While the Great Recession has exacerbated these trends, they were apparent long before its onset.

People with Huntington s disease usually die about 15 years after the onset of the symptoms.

NEW YORK Stress contributes to the onset of cardiovascular disease and depression, among other illnesses.

A trigger may be encountered up to 24 hours prior to the onset of symptoms.

The onset of action of subcutaneous insulin glargine is somewhat slower than NPH human insulin.

The disease may be acute, but typically will wax and wane.

Unemployment and non activity have become acute problems in rural areas.

The election of Ahmadinejad marks the onset of new struggles within the ruling Islamic Republican Party.

In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma, and death follow within weeks of the onset of symptoms.

The onset of action is slow and it may require several months to achieve clinical response.

In temperate social species, colonies usually only last one year, dying at the onset of winter.

Signs and symptoms Onset symptoms of infection can start from one to seven days after exposure.

In the latter case the year of the onset of the activity shall also be included.

But the onset of opportunities and the fulfilment of hopes must be based on mutual trust.

So the struggle between democratic and anti democratic tendencies is becoming acute.

By the end of 2012, the crisis could be considered less acute.

That starts with strong leadership in countries where the challenge is acute.

Corruption and failure to embrace meaningful political reform have become acute shortcomings.

Approximately 20 of patients have a relapse of pain during acute pancreatitis.

The most common cause of death in acute pancreatitis is secondary infection.

It is also a sign of acute rejection after heart transplant surgery.