In epidemiology, a disease directly attributable to environmental factors rather than to a single inherited genetic cause, with true monogenic disorders being comparatively rare. Diet, toxin exposure, pathogens, radiation, chemicals in common household and personal care products, and psychosocial stressors all contribute to non-hereditary disease, and a disease process traced to a combination of genetic and environmental influences is described as having a multifactorial pattern.
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ICD-10 ChapterXVIII: Symptoms, Signs and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified 2 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route Sources
1. Wikipedia: Environmental disease
WikipediaLead section, disease-category statement
In epidemiology, environmental diseases are diseases that can be directly attributed to environmental factors (as distinct from genetic factors or infection).
Lead section, body-system statement
There are many different types of environmental disease including: Disease caused by physical factors in the environment, such as skin cancer caused by excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation in sunlight Disease caused by exposure to toxic or irritant chemicals in the environment such as toxic metals Disease caused by exposures to toxins from biologic agents in the environment, such as aflatoxicosis from molds that produce aflatoxin Disease caused by exposure to toxic social factors in the environment, such as racism Lifestyle disease such as cardiovascular disease, diseases caused by substance abuse such as alcoholism, and smoking-related disease
Lead section, transmission-route statement
In epidemiology, environmental diseases are diseases that can be directly attributed to environmental factors (as distinct from genetic factors or infection).
Lead section, body-system statement (cardiovascular)
There are many different types of environmental disease including: Disease caused by physical factors in the environment, such as skin cancer caused by excessive exposure to ultraviolet radiation in sunlight Disease caused by exposure to toxic or irritant chemicals in the environment such as toxic metals Disease caused by exposures to toxins from biologic agents in the environment, such as aflatoxicosis from molds that produce aflatoxin Disease caused by exposure to toxic social factors in the environment, such as racism Lifestyle disease such as cardiovascular disease, diseases caused by substance abuse such as alcoholism, and smoking-related disease
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: ICD-10
WikipediaList of chapters, Chapter XVIIIQuote, List of chapters, Chapter XVIII
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
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