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 When one considers how often chronic diseases co-occur within a family unit – heart disease, arthritis, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer’s disease – it becomes increasingly plausible that nearly all inflammatory diseases are communicable and that this communicability results in familial aggregation. When one considers how often chronic diseases co-occur within a family unit – heart disease, arthritis, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, Alzheimer’s disease – it becomes increasingly plausible that nearly all inflammatory diseases are communicable and that this communicability results in familial aggregation.
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 ===== Non-relations in close proximity develop the same diseases ===== ===== Non-relations in close proximity develop the same diseases =====
  
 As would be expected for the Th1 diseases, which are [[home:pathogenesis:transmission|transmitted via proximity and contact]], even people who are not related pass diseases to each other. As would be expected for the Th1 diseases, which are [[home:pathogenesis:transmission|transmitted via proximity and contact]], even people who are not related pass diseases to each other.
  
 +  * **Alzheimer's** – A subject whose spouse experienced incident dementia onset had a [[http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/dementia-caregiver-risk/|six times greater risk]] for incident dementia as subjects whose spouses were dementia free.((Norton MC, Smith KR, Øÿstbye T, Tschanz JT, Corcoran C, Schwartz S, et al. [[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123421692/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0|Greater Risk of Dementia When Spouse Has Dementia? The Cache County Study]]. //Journal of the American Geriatrics Society//. 2010;58(5):895-900.))
   * **multiple sclerosis** – Multiple sclerosis occurred in epidemic form in various North Atlantic islands: probably in Iceland and the Shetland-Orkneys; clearly in the Faroe Islands. In the Faroes first symptom onset was in 1943, heralding the first of four successive epidemics at 13 year intervals. The disease was presumably introduced by occupying British troops during World War II, with the postwar occurrences representing later transmissions to and from consecutive cohorts of Faroese.(({{pubmed>long:10871801}}))   * **multiple sclerosis** – Multiple sclerosis occurred in epidemic form in various North Atlantic islands: probably in Iceland and the Shetland-Orkneys; clearly in the Faroe Islands. In the Faroes first symptom onset was in 1943, heralding the first of four successive epidemics at 13 year intervals. The disease was presumably introduced by occupying British troops during World War II, with the postwar occurrences representing later transmissions to and from consecutive cohorts of Faroese.(({{pubmed>long:10871801}}))
   * **obesity** – Research suggests that obesity is also an inflammatory disease caused by certain species of the Th1 pathogens.  A study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a person’s risk of becoming obese increases by 57% if they have a friend who becomes obese, and by 37% if their spouse becomes obese. (({{pubmed>long:17652652}})) The researchers attributed the results to social factors, but the spread of bacteria is a more logical explanation.   * **obesity** – Research suggests that obesity is also an inflammatory disease caused by certain species of the Th1 pathogens.  A study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a person’s risk of becoming obese increases by 57% if they have a friend who becomes obese, and by 37% if their spouse becomes obese. (({{pubmed>long:17652652}})) The researchers attributed the results to social factors, but the spread of bacteria is a more logical explanation.
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