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  2. Predictive medicine - Wikipedia

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    The goal of predictive medicine is to predict the probability of future disease so that health care professionals and the patient themselves can be proactive in instituting lifestyle modifications and increased physician surveillance, such as bi-annual full body skin exams by a dermatologist or internist if their patient is found to have an increased risk of melanoma, an EKG and cardiology ...

  3. Keratolytic winter erythema - Wikipedia

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    Keratolytic Winter erythema (also known as Oudtshoorn disease [1] or Oudtshoorn skin [2] [3]) is a rare autosomal dominant skin disease of unknown cause which causes redness and peeling of the skin on the palms and soles. [4] Onset, increased prominence and severity usually occurs during winter. [5] [6] It is a type of genodermatosis. [7]

  4. List of crowdsourcing projects - Wikipedia

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    Kaggle is a platform for data prediction competitions. Kaggle facilitates better predictions by providing a platform for machine learning, data prediction and bioinformatics competitions. The platform allows organizations to have their data scrutinized by the world's best statisticians.

  5. Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    For example, if a contact network can be approximated with an Erdős–Rényi graph with a Poissonian degree distribution, and the disease spreading parameters are as defined in the example above, such that is the transmission rate per person and the disease has a mean infectious period of , then the basic reproduction number is = [21] [22 ...

  6. Pseudoxanthoma elasticum - Wikipedia

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    Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a genetic disease that causes mineralization of elastic fibers in some tissues. The most common problems arise in the skin and eyes, and later in blood vessels in the form of premature atherosclerosis. [2] [3] [4] PXE is caused by autosomal recessive mutations in the ABCC6 gene on the short arm of chromosome 16 ...

  7. 7 of Google’s most-searched health questions in 2024, with ...

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    The flu can be extremely uncomfortable, and cases can last longer than expected. The average influenza case lasts five to seven days, according to Stockdale. Common symptoms include fever, body ...

  8. Ichthyosis - Wikipedia

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    Ichthyosis (also named fish scale disease) [1] is a family of genetic skin disorders characterized by dry, thickened, scaly skin. [2] The more than 20 types of ichthyosis range in severity of symptoms, outward appearance, underlying genetic cause and mode of inheritance (e.g., dominant, recessive , autosomal or X-linked ). [ 3 ]

  9. Ichthyosis vulgaris - Wikipedia

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    Severe cases, although rare, do exist. Severe cases entail the buildup of scales everywhere, with areas of the body that have a concentration of sweat glands being the least affected. Areas where the skin rubs against together, such as the armpits, the groin, and the "folded" areas of the elbow and knees, are less affected.