predisease
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See also: pre-disease
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]predisease (not comparable)
- Of or relating to a predisease (such as prediabetes or prehypertension), as with predisease states or predisease stage.
- Before a disease began, as with predisease cognitive performance as a baseline in dementia or predisease motor function as a baseline in multiple sclerosis.
Noun
[edit]predisease (plural prediseases)
- (medicine) A condition, albeit consisting of only one or two signs, that is identifiable as, or believed to be, a subclinical prelude to a disease, with greatly[1] increased predisposition thereto (for example, prediabetes or prehypertension); the operational definition of such a state or the clinical value of asserting it may be contentious[1] (as with purported preobesity).
- 2011, Anthony J. Viera, “Predisease: when does it make sense?”, in Epidemiologic Reviews, volume 33, number 1, , →PMID, pages 122–134:
- When the goal of preventing adverse health outcomes is kept in mind, this review poses the idea that "predisease" as a category on which to act makes sense only if the following 3 conditions are met. First, the people designated as having predisease must be far more likely to develop disease than those not so designated. Second, there must be a feasible intervention that, when targeted to people with predisease, effectively reduces the likelihood of developing disease. Third, the benefits of intervening on predisease must outweigh the harms in the population.
- 2010, Michiel Korthals, Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities[1]:
- Nowadays, it suggests more of a kind of 'proto-professionalization': the internalization of professional attitudes towards one's own body and acting as a kind of 'proto-professional' in cases of the treatment of a predisease.
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Viera, Anthony J. (2011) “Predisease: when does it make sense?”, in Epidemiologic Reviews, volume 33, number 1, , →PMID, pages 122-134