Metabolic Syndrome
By Jeffry Fawcett, May 31, 2005 in the Editorials blog
When is a disease not a disease? When it’s a risk factor.
Huge amounts of money are spent on treating people who are not ill. Although not ill, these people have risk factors that are treated as though they were a disease because medical science believes that if you have, for example, high LDL cholesterol, you’re more likely to have a heart attack. [Read more…]