Did you know that six in ten American adults have a chronic disease? Chronic diseases are more common than you might think, particularly invisible diseases like Primary Immunodeficiency.
A chronic disease is a persistent or long-lasting health condition that develops over an extended period of time. According to the CDC, a chronic disease is a “condition that lasts 1 year or more and requires ongoing medical attention or limits activities or daily living or both.”
It’s important to get a diagnosis as early as possible to prevent infections, serious illness, and other potentially significant life interruptions or related health conditions. Be sure to learn your family’s history of chronic disease! This knowledge will help to confirm any possible disease diagnosis and can indicate other potential disease warning signs.
Thanks to the incredible scientific discoveries that have progressed over the past thirty-five years of the Foundation’s operation, patients living with PI who receive regular treatments are more likely to gain and maintain control of their lives, participate more regularly in work, school, family, and other social activities.
Want to learn more about the 10 Warning Signs of PI? Find them in more than 50 languages on our website: https://info4pi.org/library/educational-materials/10-warning-signs.