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silent disease

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silent disease
[sī′lənt]
Etymology: L, silens + dis + Fr, aise, ease
a disease or other disorder that produces no clinically obvious signs or symptoms. See also subclinical.


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re obese, can cut the risk of developing age related macular degeneration disease (also known as AMD), the number one cause of severe vision loss among older people Long associated with getting older, this mostly silent disease gradually, without pain, destroys the sharp, central vision that is needed to see things clearly in order to read or drive a car New research out of Australia shows that those who lose weight, especially if they?
It is one of those silent diseases in our society that we haven't been able to overcome very well.
Yet every one of these tragedies could have been prevented if the victim only knew that they were suffering from a silent disease.
 
 
 
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