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cord-325906-2k2g5khw	Tresker, Steven	A typology of clinical conditions	2020-05-22		.txt	text/plain	7590	333	45	By attending to the types of clinical conditions possible on the basis of these key factors (symptomaticity, dysfunction, and the meeting of diagnostic criteria), I draw attention to how diseases and other clinical conditions as currently classified can be better categorized, highlighting the issues pertaining to certain typology categories. As Christopher Boorse wrote in 1977 (564-565) , "The distinction between normal variation and underlying disease is one of the most important features of medical theory, though in practice it is often hard to draw because so much clinical evidence is gross output." Given that most clinical evidence is indeed gross output (blood glucose levels, for example), whereby laboratory tests at most only offer a proxy for or rough indication of the dysfunction present (e.g., defects in pancreatic beta cells, adipose tissue, the incretin system), ascertaining the presence of disease is not always as straightforward as it may seem. A risk-based condition could thus be defined as a clinical condition for which a person could meet diagnostic criteria for a "disease" yet for which in some cases no dysfunction is present (it is not a disease by the BST).	./cache/cord-325906-2k2g5khw.txt	./txt/cord-325906-2k2g5khw.txt