Most likely diagnostic options for a tapering- / tapered fingers (listed order of conditions below is made according overall statistical chance to find this hand sign combined with the condition):
- ASSOCIATED PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS:
• schizophrenia [~3% | 1:100 | weight: 0.03]
- ASSOCIATED MEDICAL CONDITIONS:
• Prader-Willi syndrome [~20?% | 1:15.000 | w: 0.001]
• Coffin-Lowry syndr. [~98% | 1:100.000 | w: 0.001]
• Marfan syndrome [~?% | 1:5.000 | weight: ?]
• Cornelia de Lange syndrome [~?% | 1:15.000 | w: ?]
• de Grouchy syndrome [~?% | 1:20.000 | w: ?]
• Wolff-Hirschhorn syndrome [~?% | 1:50.000 | w: ?]
[1st figure = prevalence hand sign in condition | 2nd
figure = prevalence condition in GP | 3rd figure =
estimated weight hand sign for condition relative
to GP (>1,00 = high impact)]
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Quick summary:
Even though tapering fingers are slightly rare, in the field of palmistry this phenomenon became associated with the so-called conic hand shape & psychic hand shape; prevalence statistics indicate that only in a small minority of cases this phenomenon is associated with mental problems (e.g. schizophrenia or mental retardation).
[For every 100 tapering fingers cases in the general population (GP) there
are only 3 schizophrenia cases with tapering fingers, etc.]
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