Window panes of eternity. Health, disease, and inherited risk.

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Window panes of eternity. Health, disease, and inherited risk.

The Yale journal of biology and medicine - 1 Jan 2000

Scriver C R

Abstract excerpt

Personal health reflects harmony between individual and experience; it is optimal homeostasis. Disease is an outcome of incongruity leading to dishomeostasis. Relative to earlier times, disease in modern society has higher "heritability" (in the broad meaning of the term). Inherited risks are facts compatible with anticipation and prevention of disease. This viewpoint has major implications for medical practice,...

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Aging
Alcoholism
Arteriosclerosis
Biological Evolution
Brain Diseases
Chromosome Fragility
Female
Forecasting
Genetic Counseling
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Genetic Testing
Genetic Variation

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Health

Hemochromatosis

Homeostasis

Humans

Longevity

Male

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PMID: 6763817
PMCID: PMC2596554

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