Richard Kahn
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Richard Kahn
becoming concerned condition diabetes disease greatly helping individual information manage medical people publicly support
We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are concerned with information about a person's individual medical condition becoming publicly known.
add believing factors higher individual patient people risk unique
We shouldn't be diagnosing people with the 'metabolic syndrome.' Doing so misleads the patient into believing he or she has a unique disease. What they really have are well-known cardiovascular risk factors. The combination of risk factors does not add up to a more significant or higher cardiovascular risk than the individual components,