Incidence of Disease Precursors?

[Guest guest]

Living in Shanghai, China I can get many medical tests for pennies of the

dollar of what they would cost in the U.S. For example, recently I got an

ultrasound test for BPH and kidney stones. Total cost: $7.

Consequently, for what might be prohibitively expensive for me in the

States, I am designing a personal program of regular testing that will

address two levels of testing.

Level 1: to test for condition(s) that, although not indicative of any

particular disease itself, are usually contributing factor(s) in the

development of a disease, should that disease develop. Examples: low bone

density or elevated LDL cholesterol.

Level 2: to test for a disease condition itself (whether potentially fatal

or not). Examples: cancer or kidney stones.

But even with low China prices (and because of other limiting factors), I

must limit the particular disease precursors and diseases that I test for,

concentrating on the most likely.

It's easy enough to obtain an incidence list for fatal diseases, at least

for the top 100.

However, what is more problematic (so far) is finding an incidence list of

all diseases (whether fatal or not)?

And, then, after that, I will need to identify the precursor conditions

that can be tested for, as an example, for the top 100 such diseases? And

what the test names would be for these conditions?

Any suggestions, information, or guidance here?

Thank you very much!

Dwight GoldWinde

Shanghai, China