Meetings & Conventions: Short Cuts June 1999
June 1999
Short Cuts:
HEALTH BEAT
HOW SICK ARE YOU? If you got a clean bill of
health at your last checkup, enjoy it while it lasts. A handful of
medical organizations want to change the clinical definitions of
diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and excessive
weight.
Theoretically, the proposed changes would help with early
detection and treatment. But if they take effect, about 75 percent
of the U.S. adult population would be considered diseased, up from
the current 58 percent, point out researchers from Dartmouth
Medical School in Hanover, N.H. The number of Americans with
diabetes would increase by 1.7 million (14 percent); high blood
pressure, 13.5 million (35 percent); high cholesterol, 42.6 million
(86 percent); and excessive weight, 29.5 million (42 percent).
Another concern: The new definitions might lead to unnecessary
anxiety and even unnecessary treatment, the Dartmouth researchers
speculate in a report published in the journal Effective
Clinical Practice.
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