Certain illnesses (such as rubella and chlamydia) increase the risk.

Pollution, cigarette smoke, drugs, illness and stress can increase our exposure.

Major life stressors, chronic illness, medications, and relationship or work problems may also increase the chances of dysthymia.

A chronic illness might increase the need for an emergency fund.

And some autism experts also believe the illness is increasing.

Yet the illness also increases his restlessness, his depression.

Certain chronic illnesses in the mother, such as diabetes, can increase the risk of congenital heart defects in the baby.

The illness itself increases the need for food and calories.

It is very likely that heat-related illnesses and deaths will increase over coming decades.

Certain physical and mental illnesses and the pharmaceutical substances used to treat them can increase risk of obesity.