People who feel they are gluten-sensitive but do not test positive for celiac disease do not have celiac disease.
"All these studies tell us is it is much more complicated than just trying to fix that number because that is a surrogate marker, or a predictor for the disease, not the disease itself, " says Robert Centor, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
The problem at HCA results from a combination of mis-diagnosis (treating people for coronary artery disease who did not have the disease) and self-referral (the provider who makes the false diagnosis then performs the treatment and profits by it).
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You actually may not have celiac disease or at least you may not have the clinical manifestations of a gluten allergy and you can still have eczema related to celiac disease.
In reality, however, in taking a meat cleaver to the unions, Thatcher was tackling the symptoms not the disease.
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Contrary to what many think, this is not a disease caused by starvation.
Who decides whether the risk is too high if say he has a sickle cell trait, but not the disease itself?
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And bonuses are, for the most part, the symptom not the disease.
An important distinction is that alpha-gal is not a disease like Lyme disease or Rocky Mountain spotted fever -- it is an allergy.
Opponents say also that obesity may cause health problems the way high cholesterol does, but it is not a disease in and of itself.
They discovered that in North Carolina, where the Baptist church is powerful, many people believed that alcoholism was not a disease but a sign of personal weakness.
We have the opportunity to transform it in ways that can not only make health care available to everyone who needs it, but also ensure that it's health care, not just disease care.
Prevailing opinion is that they need not be treated because their disease has not progressed to a point where it threatens their health.
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However, it is not like a test for the disease itself - not all women who are positive for BRCA 1 or 2 will go on to develop the disease.
Or a person may receive false reassurance that he or she is not at risk for a certain disease and not be vigilant about his or her health, he said.
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And pre-specified secondary subgroup analyses of pooled data across both studies showed a statistically significant slowing of cognitive decline in patients with mild disease, but not in those with moderate disease.
Melzer pointedly noted that in a more recent study, published earlier this year, his team found that those who developed coronary artery disease tended to have higher urine BPA concentrations up to ten years earlier than those who did not develop heart disease.
Still, "most of the family history that we're collecting is just the presence or the absence of heart disease, not the age of onset or the type of disease, " says Dr. Arnett, who wasn't involved in the latest research.
It did not adjust for disease history, obesity, smoking or any actual heart disease risk factors.
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Cancer is not a single disease of course, but a family of related diseases.
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But dead bodies should not be a disease concern to the public, he said.
This is not a medical disease but rather it is a normal reaction to abnormal personal or social circumstances.
"Mold exposure does not cause significant disease, " says Paul Wax, a practicing toxicologist in Phoenix who isn't involved in litigation.
Forty-one per cent of those who said they did have enough information about drug treatments still did not take a disease-modifying treatment.
Some will be vaccinated with the bacteria, which although from the same family as the tuberculosis bacterium, does not cause any disease.
For years, he has fought not only his disease, but also the crippling side effects of the drugs used to treat it.
More to the point, the Chinese drug is used after a victim contracts malaria--it does not prevent the disease, as does DDT.
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