Authors: V. Vonka Authors‘ workplace: Ústav hematologie a krevní transfuze, Praha Published in: Čas. Lék. čes. 2004; : 409-413 Category:
Clarification of the aetiology of chronic human diseases such as atherosclerosis or cancer is one of the dominanttopics in the contemporary medical research. It is believed that identification of the causal factors will enable moreefficient prevention and diagnosis of these diseases and, in some instances, also permit more effective therapy. Thetask is difficult because of the multistep and multifactorial origin of these diseases. In this paper the author attemptsto review the present methodological approaches to aetiological studies of chronic diseases and discusses the roleof criteria for identifying causal relationships.
Key words: causality in medicine, chronic diseases.
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