Definitions of chronic disease need to be more patient centred
Early, small abnormal changes should be defined as disease only if there are effective interventions that can make an important difference to patients, argue <b>Zu-Yao Yang</b> and <b>Jin-Ling Tang</b>
Authors
- Zu‐Yao Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2386-2431)
- Jinling Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-0083)
Institutions
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Shenzhen University (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (CN)
- Shenzhen Technology University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ
- Published
- 2024-10-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1858
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.09