Researchers Build World's Largest Disease Association Network
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 11:14
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you suffer from hypertension, how much does your risk for developing diabetes or other illnesses increase? Medical experts have long known that many diseases are related to one another, even to the point that there are often no clear boundaries between different diseases. Such correlations occur because diseases can have multiple causes, and also because multiple diseases can have the same cause (for example, the same gene or protein pathway).