According to Wikipedia, a non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease that can be defined as non-infectious and non-transmissible among people. The basic causes of NCD are unknown and for that reason, we cannot say for sure that NCD are not caused by infections. Multiple epidemiological studies have, for example, established positive associations between the risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality and markers of infection(1). However, what we definitely … [Read more...]
Patients and clinicians need to know the aetiology of non-communicable diseases
One of the most striking contributions of Hippocrates is the recognition that diseases are only part of the processes of nature, that there is nothing divine or sacred about them. . . [He] remarks that each disease has its own nature, and that no one arises without a natural cause. Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Medical scientific endeavours have unravelled the causes of infectious diseases. Most infectious diseases are transmittable between humans, but some of them are transmitted … [Read more...]