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Detection of a disease precursor by screening in someone who would not ultimately develop symptoms or die from the disease leads to detection bias, or pseudodisease. For example, blood pressure screening leads to people with high blood pressure being told that they have hypertension. While people with hypertension are more likely to develop diseases such as stroke, not all of them will. These people can be considered to have a pseudodisease