Chronic disease

Chronic diseases (CDs) pose a significant challenge to healthcare in the 21st century. Factors such as population aging, lifestyle-modifiable risk factors, a decline in early-life infectious diseases, sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy food habits have resulted in the emergence of chronic diseases as a major global hea...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic lung disease of unknown etiology, closely associated with interstitial lung disease that shows similar symptoms but with different mode of action. The disease is known so because it primarily involves the interstitium, where scars develop and progresses towards the ce...