Results:
To investigate whether efficient acute and chronic inflammatory states are mutually exclusive, we retrospectively analysed patient case records from a large clinical practice database.
Of the 11,800 case records that were available, 927 chronic inflammatory disease records met the inclusion criteria and were included. There were 393 male (42.4%) and 534 female (57.6%) patients. The top 5 conditions that emerged were allergies (of all kinds considered together), chronic headaches (including migraine, cluster headache and psychogenic headache), diabetes mellitus, hypertension and chronic fatigue syndrome/post-viral syndrome. Allergic conditions were found to be more commonly associated with acute inflammatory conditions than the other chronic conditions (Fig 1).