comorbidity

Addition of each co-morbidity reduces the remission by 28%.

Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, and other specialists from Europe, Asia, South Africa, and Brazil address the epidemiology of hypopharyngeal cancer; signs and symptoms, staging, and co-morbidity; natural history; clinical and radiological evaluation; treatment options, including surgical treatment; indications for non-surgical treatment; outcomes of tumor control for primary treatment; sequelae and complications of treatment; swallowing and voice outcomes following treatment; quality of life outcomes; salvage treatment options after failed primary treatment; systemic therapy, palliation, and supportive care of patients; and treatment options for patients in developing countries in Africa, South America, and Asia.

Table 4: Association of various lifestyles with presence or absence of co-morbidity (N = 91).

The single most reported co-morbidity was hypertension (94.1%, n=16).

Dr Amer Abbas Qureshi spoke on major depressive disorders among epileptic patients, Dr Imtiaz Ahmed Dogar on psychiatric co-morbidity associated with mental disorders, Prof Asif Bashir on Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and Psychosurgery, current and future applications, Dr Rana Muzammil Shamsher Khan on frequency of Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in depression.

Co-morbidity can be considered as a strong predictor of length of stay in hospital.

Very large and complex wounds, infected, wounds with co-morbidity, extensive war wounds were included.

Around eighteen percent of participants having diagnosed with co-morbidity, six (5%) were hypertensive, eleven (9.2%) were diabetic and five (4.2%) were both diabetic and hypertensive.

The need to objectively assess the degree of patient co-morbidity has led to the development of several validated tools.

It could be proper interpreted by different words or phrases like presence of one or more additional diseases, multimorbidity and morbidity burden and patient difficulty.1 Co-morbidity was defined by Feinstein as "any distinct clinical entity that has co-existed or that may occur during the clinical course of a patient who has the index disease under study".1 Occurrence of primary disorder, illnesses along with additional disease either mental or behavioral is known as Co morbidity.2 For the better prognosis of individuals suffering from co exiting diseases health care providers address better and well equipped management.3