Risk prognosis research is of great significance for guiding clinic

preventing and treating diseases.The concept of "preventive treatment of disease"in Chinese medicine lays a foundation for the formation and development of risk prognostic medicine. Based on this

combined with modern medicine research result

Chinese medicine emphasizes integration of traditional and western medicine to form a modern system of disease-syndrome combination risk prognosis. Based on the understanding of risk factors and prognostic factors in traditional medicine and the methods of studying risk prognosis

the authors summarize the various development of risk prognosis in modern medicine.By a comparison between ancient and modern risk prognosis studies in Chinese medicine

the authors put forward the study area of Chinese medicine risk prognosis

which includes playing an important role in sub-health population

chronic diseases and critical diseases

as well as constructing risk prognosis prediction model under the mode of Chinese medicine disease-syndrome combination. The above research may provide the right time for Chinese medicine"preventive treatment of disease"intervention and provide ideas for the integration of traditional and western medicine.