People with Type 2 diabetes also have twice the risk of stroke within the first five years of diagnosis compared with the general population.
Historically, men who get a diagnosis of prostate cancer have been nearly twice as likely to kill themselves and more likely to die of heart-related causes soon after their diagnosis compared with men in the general population, a study has found.
Dr. James Perrin, the director of the division of general pediatrics at the Mass General Hospital for Children in Boston, says it takes more than one doctor's visit to get an ADHD diagnosis right. (Perrin helped write guidelines for diagnosing ADHD in general practice or family practice settings, which were published in 2000, but did not participate in Garland's study).
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"In general, we don't think you can make the diagnosis of ADHD in a single visit in primary care, " Perrin says.
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For a diagnosis of atypical depression, you must first meet the general DSM criteria for major depression such as feeling down most of the day and losing interest or pleasure in activities you once enjoyed.
Dr. PETER GOSS (Massachusetts General Hospital): The truth is that between year five and 15 after diagnosis, some 30 percent experience a recurrence of breast cancer.
And while one of those proposals would strengthen measures to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill people who represent a danger to themselves or others, undoubtedly a very good and popular idea, what about the larger issue of the way we deal with detection, diagnosis, treatment and protection of those with serious mental problems in general?
In some cases in the study - which involved 212 women from across 39 general practices in Devon - women had visited their GPs with symptoms six months prior to diagnosis, but most symptoms were reported in the three months before.
Brigadier General REUBEN JONES (U.S. Army): The complexity of those injuries, the complexity of the diagnosis, they place a challenge on our great Army.
The goal of such tests, says IntegraGen general manager Larry Yost, is to have children at very high risk for autism referred to specialists for a definitive diagnosis earlier.
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