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  2. Etiology - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is hemophilia, a disorder that leads to excessive bleeding. Metabolic and endocrine, or hormone, disorders. These are abnormalities in the chemical signaling and interaction in the body. For example, Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine disease that causes high blood sugar.

  3. Cause (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    An etiological agent of disease may require an independent co-factor, and be subject to a promoter (increases expression) to cause disease. An example of all the above, which was recognized late, is that peptic ulcer disease may be induced by stress, requires the presence of acid secretion in the stomach, and has primary etiology in ...

  4. Idiopathic disease - Wikipedia

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    An idiopathic disease is any disease with an unknown cause or mechanism of apparent spontaneous origin. [1]For some medical conditions, one or more causes are somewhat understood, but in a certain percentage of people with the condition, the cause may not be readily apparent or characterized.

  5. Disease - Wikipedia

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    Also called silent disease, silent stage, or asymptomatic disease. This is a stage in some diseases before the symptoms are first noted. [23] Terminal phase If a person will die soon from a disease, regardless of whether that disease typically causes death, then the stage between the earlier disease process and active dying is the terminal phase.

  6. Lists of diseases - Wikipedia

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    Contagious disease, a subset of infectious diseases. Cryptogenic disease, a disease whose cause is currently unknown. Disseminated disease, a disease that is spread throughout the body. Environmental disease; Lifestyle disease, a disease caused largely by lifestyle choices. Localized disease, a disease affecting one body part or area.

  7. Non-communicable disease - Wikipedia

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    NCDs include many environmental diseases covering a broad category of avoidable and unavoidable human health conditions caused by external factors, such as sunlight, nutrition, pollution, and lifestyle choices. The diseases of affluence are non-infectious diseases with environmental causes. Examples include: Many types of cardiovascular disease ...

  8. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    The causes listed are relatively immediate medical causes, but the ultimate cause of death might be described differently. For example, tobacco smoking often causes lung disease or cancer, and alcohol use disorder can cause liver failure or a motor vehicle accident.

  9. Category:Ailments of unknown cause - Wikipedia

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    Scheuermann's disease; Scrapie; Senescence; SIDS; Sleeping sickness of Kalachi, Kazakhstan; Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak; Sudden unexplained death in childhood; Sweating sickness; Synovial osteochondromatosis; Systemic scleroderma