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Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient 's ordinarily expected lifetime [ 1] and thus presents no practical threat regardless of being pathologic. Overdiagnosis is a side effect of screening for early forms of disease. Although screening saves lives in some cases, in others it may turn ...
Diagnosis is often challenging in infants and children who can't clearly communicate their symptoms, and in the elderly, where signs and symptoms may be muted or absent. [44] There are more than 7000 rare diseases alone, and in aggregate these are not uncommon: Roughly 1 in 17 patients will be diagnosed with a rare disease over their lifetime. [45]
Prognosis (Greek: πρόγνωσις "fore-knowing, foreseeing"; pl.: prognoses) is a medical term for predicting the likelihood or expected development of a disease, including whether the signs and symptoms will improve or worsen (and how quickly) or remain stable over time; expectations of quality of life, such as the ability to carry out daily activities; the potential for complications and ...
Bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is characterized by episodes of depression and hypomania or mania. Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks. [ 4][ 5] If the elevated mood is severe or associated ...
dyslexia, written language learning disability [ 1] Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder [ 2] and learning disability that concerns impairments in written expression, which affects the ability to write, primarily handwriting, but also coherence. It is a specific learning disability (SLD) as well as a transcription disability, meaning that it ...
Syndrome. A syndrome is a set of medical signs and symptoms which are correlated with each other and often associated with a particular disease or disorder. [ 1] The word derives from the Greek σύνδρομον, meaning "concurrence". [ 2]: 1818 When a syndrome is paired with a definite cause this becomes a disease. [ 3]
Oppositional defiant disorder ( ODD) [ 1] is listed in the DSM-5 under Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders and defined as "a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness". [ 2] This behavior is usually targeted toward peers, parents, teachers, and other authority figures, including law ...
18% per year (United States) [ 5] A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, [ 6] a mental health condition, [ 7] or a psychiatric disability, [ 2] is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. [ 8] A mental disorder is also characterized by a clinically significant ...