Heterogeneous medical condition or heterogeneous disease in medicine are those medical conditions which have several etiologies , like hepatitis or diabetes. Medical conditions are normally defined pathologically ( liver inflammation) or clinically ( excessive urination) and not etiologically , and therefore it is normal to have more than one cause for them. The word is used as an opposition to homogeneous , meaning that given a group of patients, the disease is the same for all of them. When a condition is heterogeneous, it is normally divided in endotypes .
A heterogeneous medical condition or heterogeneous disease is a medical term referring to a medical condition with several etiologies (root causes), such as hepatitis or diabetes. Medical conditions are normally defined pathologically ( i.e. based on the state of the patient), as in "liver inflammation," or clinically ( i.e based on the apparent symptoms of the patient), as in "excessive urination," and not etiologically (i.e. based on the underlying causes of the symptoms), and so it is not unusual for conditions to have multiple etiologies. Heterogenous conditions are sometimes contrasted with homogeneous conditions, which have the same root cause for all patients in a given group. Heterogeneous conditions are often divided into endotypes based on etiology .
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When a condition is heterogeneous, it is normally divided in endotypes
(i.e. based on the underlying causes of the symptoms), and so it is not unusual for conditions to have multiple etiologies. Heterogenous conditions are sometimes contrasted with homogeneous conditions, which have the same root cause for all patients in a given group. Heterogeneous conditions are often divided into endotypes based on etiology