For disease classification, all 750 diseases were mapped to 36 generic disease categories using CTD's MEDIC-Slim disease vocabulary (9) to better summarize and visualize the disease classifications, as previously described (18).
Lipoatrophy looks very similar to AIDS wasting syndrome, termed "Slims disease" throughout Africa, and may confer the same stigmatization [ 1].
Diarrhea accompanied by wasting ("slims disease") is responsible for a significant amount of HIV-related morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa [ 22], even in the era of ART [ 23, 24].
"There were rumours that you were suffering from the slimmer's disease anorexia nervosa," Lawley said.
Social pressure to be as slender as a catwalk model, as sylph-like as a Hollywood star, is said to be what drives anorexia, the so-called slimmer's disease.
The chances of catching it from eating an egg are slim but the disease can be nasty, especially for vulnerable groups like children and pensioners.
29 Targeting the screening of a specific panel of genes known to be associated with a particular phenotype, as opposed to screening mutations, would appear necessary in the belief that eating five pieces of fruit and vegetables a day will keep us slim, healthy, and disease free.
In this study, we proposed statistical methods to slim the general-purpose disease ontology to a simplified controlled vocabulary list called 'Disease-Ontology Lite' (DOLite) specifically for the functional enrichment test of a gene list.
"Slim" and "the thinning disease" are blunt and descriptive.
It is possible that patients who present with wasting at the time of tuberculosis diagnosis were of slim body build before disease as compared to the patients who present with normal nutritional status as previously reported that patients with slim body build were at increased risk for tuberculosis [ 55].
"When that size of the population is being protected then the chances of picking up the disease are very slim.
