Symptoms and diseases

The standardization of term names should have the same meanings for label names, relationship names, property names, and also for the content filled within the properties.

Integrity: Consistency, reliability, and uniqueness of information from nodes and relationships.

A Symptom defines a correlation between effect; qualifier; anatomy; and physiology.

Diagnosis is an association process to be recorded in the patient's medical record that correlates: symptoms, exams, and diseases.

There are post-diagnostic elements: prognosis and treatment.

The reason Disease is at this higher level is that it correlates with “symptoms”, so it is a broader recognized pattern.

The (specific) disease anchors the relationship between symptoms and diseases (classes), just as the (specific) disease is the relationship itself.

Diseases correlate symptoms; disease groups (link); qualifier; cause (lack of vitamin and/or minerals, viruses and/or bacteria, drugs, stimulants, substances, behavior); anatomy (location); and physiology (functioning).

Disease is therefore a correlation: of a class of disease and a specification that has a location.

Two questions we must answer:

What symptoms are necessary to enter the disease group(s)?

What symptoms are needed to differentiate a specific disease from the disease group(s)?

The benefit is a health symptom that defines a correlation between effect; qualifier; anatomy; and physiology.

Benefits (effects): associated with supplements, behaviors, foods, vitamins, and minerals.

The challenge is to find, through the analysis of terms, the relationship between benefits, symptoms, and diseases.