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Diseases or disorders or syndromes[edit]
Clinical articles can achieve a level of consistency by limiting their top-level headers to those specified below. However, the spectrum of medical conditions is huge, including infectious and genetic diseases, chronic and acute illness, the life-threatening and the inconvenient. Some sections will necessarily be absent or may be better merged, especially if the article is not (yet) fully comprehensive.

A disease that is now only of historical significance may benefit from having its History section moved towards the top. Establishing the forms of the disease (Classification) can be an important first section. However, if such classification depends heavily on understanding the cause, pathogenesis or symptoms, then that section may be better moved to later in the article. If a disease is incurable, then the Prognosis section can be moved up, and a section called Management is more appropriate than Treatment.

The following list of suggested headings contains wikilinks; the actual headings should not.


 * Classification: If relevant. May also be placed as a subheading of Diagnosis.
 * Signs and symptoms or Characteristics or Presentation (subsection Complications)
 * Causes: Includes risk factors, triggers, genetics, virology (e.g., structure/morphology and replication), spread.
 * Mechanism: For information about pathogenesis and pathophysiology.
 * Diagnosis: Includes characteristic biopsy findings and differential diagnosis.
 * Prevention or Screening (If the section only discusses secondary prevention, it should follow the treatment section.)
 * Treatment: This might include any type of currently used treatment, such as diet, exercise, medication, palliative care, physical therapy, psychotherapy, self care, surgery, watchful waiting, and many other possibilities. Consider discussing treatments in a plausible order in which they might be tried, or discussing the most common treatments first. Avoid experimental/speculative treatments and preventive measures (e.g., prophylactic vaccines or infection-avoidance techniques). Wikipedia articles should not be written in a "how-to" style, but this does not prevent adding official guidelines of treatments or managements if these can be presented in an objective manner and with medically reliable sources.
 * Outcomes or Prognosis. May also be labeled "Possible outcomes" or "Outlook".
 * Epidemiology: factors such as  incidence, prevalence, age distribution, and sex ratio.
 * History: Early discoveries, historical figures, and outdated treatments (not patient history)
 * Society and culture: This might include social perceptions, cultural history, stigma, economics, religious aspects, awareness, legal issues, and notable cases.
 * Research directions: Include only if addressed by significant sources. See Trivia, and avoid useless statements like "More research is needed". Wikipedia is not a directory of clinical trials or researchers.
 * Special populations, such as Geriatrics or Pregnancy or Children
 * Other animals

Contents

 * 1Signs and symptoms
 * 2Cause
 * 2.1Risk factors
 * 2.2Transmission
 * 3Pathophysiology
 * 4Diagnosis
 * 5Prevention
 * 6Treatment
 * 7Epidemiology
 * 8Research
 * 9Other animals
 * 10References
 * 11Further reading
 * 12External links

Needs to add: outcomes or prognosis