The number of people with at least one of four major medical conditions has increased dramatically in the past decade because of changes in the definitions of disease. "The new definitions ultimately label 75 percent of the adult U.S. population as diseased," according to calculations by two Dartmouth Medical School researchers.
This is really informative. I had heard that the industry kept adjusting the criteria for gestational diabetes in order to make it into a big issue, but I hadn't heard about some of these other measurements being constantly adjusted.
ReplyDeleteHm, this is really interesting. And it makes your previous post about obesity rates make more sense to me.
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