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What is the most interesting illness?
Water allergy.
What is the weirdest medical condition?
Sufferers of a bizarre medical condition called “body integrity identity disorder” (BIID), who are otherwise totally sane, feel as if one of their body parts their right foot up to the mid-calf, for example shouldn’t be there.
What are the top 5 disorders?
Below are the five most common mental health disorders in America and their related symptoms:
- Anxiety Disorders. The most common category of mental health disorders in America impacts approximately 40 million adults 18 and older.
- Mood Disorders.
- Psychotic Disorders.
- Dementia.
- Eating disorders.
What is RSS medical condition?
Russell-Silver syndrome is a growth disorder characterized by slow growth before and after birth. Babies with this condition have a low birth weight and often fail to grow and gain weight at the expected rate (failure to thrive).
What are 5 medical conditions that are genetic?
Examples of genetic conditions include:
- some cancers.
- cystic fibrosis.
- high cholesterol.
- haemophilia.
- muscular dystrophy.
- birth defects (for example, spina bifida or a cleft lip).
What is the most common medical condition in the US?
These are the top 10 health conditions affecting Americans
- Hypertension — National Health Impact 12.5\%
- Major Depression — National Health Impact 9\%
- High Cholesterol — National Health Impact 8.6\%
- Coronary Artery Disease — National Health Impact 7\%
- Type 2 Diabetes — National Health Impact 5.5\%
What is the number 1 mental illness in the world?
The WHO reports that anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders worldwide with specific phobia, major depressive disorder and social phobia being the most common anxiety disorders.
What is Watson’s disease?
Watson syndrome is an autosomal dominant condition characterized by Lisch nodules of the ocular iris, axillary/inguinal freckling, pulmonary valvular stenosis, relative macrocephaly, short stature, and neurofibromas. Watson syndrome is allelic to NF1, the same gene associated with neurofibromatosis type 1.