While teaching a health-promotion class to a group of parents of children in a Head Start class,the nurse informs the parents that the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S.children is:

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Dental decay is the most common preventable chronic infectious disease in U.S. children, affecting about 42% of children aged 2 to 11 years old. Hepatitis A, HIV, and herpes are all infectious diseases, but they are not as common or preventable as dental decay.

While Teaching a Health-Promotion Class to a Group of Parents