Instead, the condition is monitored over time to detect any change in the disease pattern.

At independence, the policies of racial inequality were reflected in the disease patterns of the black majority.

A sensitive indicator of health need should reflect these disease patterns.

These discrepancies in disease patterns vary significantly between diseases, but have a notable impact on the population.

If a viral infection were spread throughout the arteries, he said, it could explain the unusual disease pattern.

Note that the Latin names are for the conditions (disease patterns), not the agents that cause them.

The disease patterns below identify the type of fungus that causes them only in the cases listed:

This kind of disease pattern is called ileocolitis.

This might help insurers or drug makers, which could sift the records of the nation's major medical centers to search out disease patterns.

The disease pattern is remarkably similar in most series (Table 2).