Basic disease

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The concept of the basic disease describes the condition of a patient suffering from several illnesses or multimorbid patients in whom some of his other complaints can be explained by the course of other disease processes, namely the basic illnesses. Such an underlying disease can then be the causal basis for further diseases. The consequences of the basic disease are called secondary diseases.

Georg Friedrich Parrot, for example, spoke in his work Views on General Diseases (1820) that general disease is the study of basic diseases.

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on the underlying disease in Flexikon , a wiki from DocCheck , accessed on November 27, 2015.