NBME 22 Multifactorial (NBME Answers)

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A 40-year-old woman comes to the physician ...
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submitted by ∗alexb(53)

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It seems like a lot of the systemic autoimmune diseases are multifactorial. Is there a general rule for this?

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ls3076 Really good observation +2

acidfastboi Never forget what our lord and savior Dr. Sattar says - environmental trigger in a genetically predisposed individual (aka multifactorial)! +6

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Sjogren's

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/10252/sjogren-syndrome

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luciana "Sjogren syndrome likely results from a combination of genetic and environmental factors (it appears to be multifactorial). Several different genes appear to affect the risk of developing the condition, but specific genes have not been confirmed. Simply having one of these genes does not cause a person to develop the disease. " From the article cited +5

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submitted by ∗yousif7000(12)

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In solving these types of questions I like to think in this way: if a disease you cant recall being inherited eg AR, AD etc.. just choose multifactorial it always works for me like in uwourld there was the same type of question that asked about hypertension, so I hope you got my point.

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