13 New Discoveries at CureTogether
Thousands of voices can create beautiful discoveries. (Photo: qthomasbower)
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A huge thanks to the amazing CureTogether community! Sharing your health conditions, symptoms and treatments is leading to many new associations.
Many of you have been asking for more personalized recommendations, like what treatment will work best for me given my set of symptoms? I’m excited to say this is in the works! Our query masters are knee-deep in stats right now to find answers for you.
In the meantime, a gift – here are 13 more co-morbidities we found, with a significant 99% confidence interval. We hope this advances research into these conditions and sparks new questions and ideas.
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Endometriosis – Infertility (757 people)
Eating Disorders – Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (724 people)
Fibromyalgia – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (749 people)
Interstitial Cystitis – Bladder Infection (789 people)
Neuropathy – Arthritic Hips (480 people)
Body Image Distortion – Binge Eating (757 people)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Adrenal Fatigue (746 people)
Candidiasis – Vulvar Vestibulitis (785 people)
Fibromyalgia – Irritable Bowel Syndrome (805 people)
Obesity – Insulin Resistance (635 people)
Neuropathy – Insomnia (778 people)
Asthma – Allergies (721 people)
Adrenal Fatigue – Insulin Resistance (687 people)
Stay tuned for more discoveries to come!
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January 21st, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Alexandra, thank you for founding this site. I just read about you in Wired, and am in awe of your honesty and candidness. Thank you for looking out for other chronic pain sufferers. I wish I’d had access to your site 10 years ago.
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:57 am
Hi Susan,
Thank you so much for your gracious comment! What kind and wonderful words. I wanted to share my story to help others, and yes, I wish I’d had something like CureTogether 10 years ago too!
Be well,
Alexandra
February 1st, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Thanks! Read about the site in WIRED… this is groundbreaking stuff.
February 1st, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Thanks Scott! The link to the Wired article is http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_decisiontree/4/ – I’ll be posting it soon along with my decision tree and where you can go to make your own decision tree for your health.