Friday, June 6, 2008

Medicine By the Numbers Isn’t Enough

Two diabetes studies released this afternoon are just the latest evidence that lowering key risk factors isn’t enough to improve health. If patients (and their doctors) use the wrong strategies, they may lower risk factors but raise the chances of serious health problems.
That’s the argument from Harlan Krumholz, a Yale cardiologist whose Perspective piece accompanies [...]

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