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Which disease is more harmful - acute or chronic disease? Why ?

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Chronic disease is more harmful than acute because acute diseases last for very short period of time but chronic diseases is long term illness i.e the disease that last for a long time, even as much as a lifetime. Examples of common chronic diseases are cancer, arthritis, diabetes etc.Chronic diseases have very drastic long-term effects on people’s health as compared to acute diseases.

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