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PREDICTIVE MEDICINE. II. EXPERIMENTAL MODELS
Author(s) -
CHERASKIN E.,
RINGSDORF W. M.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1971.tb03241.x
Subject(s) - medicine , simple (philosophy) , disease , coronary heart disease , chronic disease , blood pressure , intensive care medicine , gerontology , pediatrics , pathology , cardiology , epistemology , philosophy
A bstract : Attempts to predict disease susceptibility have led to the development of proneness profiles. The diagnostic factors include age, sex, weight, blood pressure, blood biochemical values, and dietary habits. Persons with one chronic disorder sooner or later have other chronic ailments. Thus there must be common denominators in seemingly different patterns of proneness. This is illustrated by the well established coronary proneness profile and by the less well developed cancer profile. What is urgently needed is a proneness profile designed to anticipate the syndrome of sickness. There is a very ancient belief that health is a simple state to be obtained by observing a few simple positive and negative rules … But it follows from the complexity of the body that health cannot be a simple state … Because there are literally thousands of ways of being ill, to be well one has to be well in thousands of ways at once. Sir Russell Brain