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  2. Autoinflammatory diseases - Wikipedia

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    Autoinflammatory diseases (AIDs) are a group of rare disorders caused by dysfunction of the innate immune system. These responses are characterized by periodic or chronic systemic inflammation , usually without the involvement of adaptive immunity.

  3. Medicalization - Wikipedia

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    Medicalization is the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. Medicalization can be driven by new evidence or hypotheses about conditions; by changing social attitudes or economic considerations; or by ...

  4. Systemic inflammation - Wikipedia

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    Chronic systemic inflammation (SI) is the result of release of pro-inflammatory cytokines from immune-related cells and the chronic activation of the innate immune system.It can contribute to the development or progression of certain conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune and neurodegenerative ...

  5. Treatment Colchicine [ 5 ] Deficiency of the interleukin-1–receptor antagonist ( DIRA ) is an autosomal recessive , genetic autoinflammatory syndrome resulting from mutations in IL1RN , the gene encoding the interleukin 1 receptor antagonist .

  6. Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants

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    Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA), or Shoenfeld's syndrome, is a hypothesised autoimmune disorder proposed by Israeli immunologist Yehuda Shoenfeld in 2011. [1]

  7. Sociology of health and illness - Wikipedia

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    An Egyptian who lived around 2650 B.C., he was an adviser to King Zoser at a time when Egyptians were making progress in medicine. Among his contributions to medicine was a textbook on the treatment of wounds, broken bones, and even tumors. [13] Stopping the spread of infectious disease was of utmost importance for maintaining a healthy society ...

  8. Medical sociology - Wikipedia

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    Medical sociology is the sociological analysis of health, Illness, differential access to medical resources, the social organization of medicine, Health Care Delivery, the production of medical knowledge, selection of methods, the study of actions and interactions of healthcare professionals, and the social or cultural (rather than clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice. [1]

  9. Schnitzler syndrome - Wikipedia

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    As of 2017 the cause of the disease was not understood. [1] A 2024 review by Braud and Lipsker aimed to "describe what is currently known about the pathogenesis of this peculiar disease, as well as to address its diagnosis and management" and concluded that "physiopathology of Schnitzler syndrome remains elusive" and "the main question regarding the relationship between the autoinflammatory ...