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Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus
‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet’ (Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare). Shakespeare’s implication is that a name is nothing but a word, and it therefore represents a convention with no intrinsic meaning. While this may be relevant...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9578068/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36228658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EC-22-0378 |
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author | Arima, Hiroshi Cheetham, Timothy Christ-Crain, Mirjam Cooper, Deborah Gurnell, Mark Drummond, Juliana B Levy, Miles McCormack, Ann I Verbalis, Joseph Newell-Price, John Wass, John A H |
author_facet | Arima, Hiroshi Cheetham, Timothy Christ-Crain, Mirjam Cooper, Deborah Gurnell, Mark Drummond, Juliana B Levy, Miles McCormack, Ann I Verbalis, Joseph Newell-Price, John Wass, John A H |
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description | ‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet’ (Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare). Shakespeare’s implication is that a name is nothing but a word, and it therefore represents a convention with no intrinsic meaning. While this may be relevant to romantic literature, disease names do have real meanings, and consequences, in medicine. Hence, there must be a very good rationale for changing the name of a disease that has a centuries-old historical context. A working group of representatives from national and international endocrinology, and pediatric endocrine societies now proposes changing the name of ‘diabetes insipidus’ to ‘arginine vasopressin deficiency (AVP-D)’ for central etiologies, and ‘arginine vasopressin resistance (AVP-R)’ for nephrogenic etiologies. This article provides both the historical context and the rationale for this proposed name change. |
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spelling | pubmed-95780682022-10-18 Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus Arima, Hiroshi Cheetham, Timothy Christ-Crain, Mirjam Cooper, Deborah Gurnell, Mark Drummond, Juliana B Levy, Miles McCormack, Ann I Verbalis, Joseph Newell-Price, John Wass, John A H Endocr Connect Position Statement ‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet’ (Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare). Shakespeare’s implication is that a name is nothing but a word, and it therefore represents a convention with no intrinsic meaning. While this may be relevant to romantic literature, disease names do have real meanings, and consequences, in medicine. Hence, there must be a very good rationale for changing the name of a disease that has a centuries-old historical context. A working group of representatives from national and international endocrinology, and pediatric endocrine societies now proposes changing the name of ‘diabetes insipidus’ to ‘arginine vasopressin deficiency (AVP-D)’ for central etiologies, and ‘arginine vasopressin resistance (AVP-R)’ for nephrogenic etiologies. This article provides both the historical context and the rationale for this proposed name change. Bioscientifica Ltd 2022-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9578068/ /pubmed/36228658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EC-22-0378 Text en © The authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | Position Statement Arima, Hiroshi Cheetham, Timothy Christ-Crain, Mirjam Cooper, Deborah Gurnell, Mark Drummond, Juliana B Levy, Miles McCormack, Ann I Verbalis, Joseph Newell-Price, John Wass, John A H Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus |
title | Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus |
title_full | Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus |
title_fullStr | Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus |
title_full_unstemmed | Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus |
title_short | Changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of The Working Group for Renaming Diabetes Insipidus |
title_sort | changing the name of diabetes insipidus: a position statement of the working group for renaming diabetes insipidus |
topic | Position Statement |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9578068/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36228658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/EC-22-0378 |
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