成せい人じん病びょう

noun

adult disease; lifestyle disease

Dated medical term for diseases common in middle-aged and older adults, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Now often replaced by 生活習慣病 (lifestyle-related disease) in official contexts, but still understood.

See also: 生活習慣病

• 成せい人じん病びょうの予よ防ぼうには、定てい期き的てきな健けん康こう診しん断だんが大たい切せつです。

  Regular health checkups are important for preventing adult diseases.

• かつて「成せい人じん病びょう」と呼よばれていた病びょう気きの多おおくは、今いまでは「生せい活かつ習しゅう慣かん病びょう」と言いわれています。

  Many diseases once called 'adult diseases' are now referred to as 'lifestyle diseases'.