Another good quote on why we need to raise awareness of AI disorders:
It has been scientifically proven that these diseases are genetically linked; therefore, family history plays a major role. If the patient doesn’t know to tell the physician of a family history of autoimmune disease and the physician doesn’t know to ask, patients are destined for years of misdiagnosis or no diagnosis; and billions of dollars are spent that could have been saved with an increase in awareness. Further illustrating this need for awareness is a study published in the Journal of Insurance Medicine, 2008, in which large managed care databases revealed reduced health care costs after the diagnosis of celiac disease. According to Peter H.R. Green, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director, Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center, “We now have evidence that the increased awareness and diagnosis of celiac disease would benefit not only the patients but would result in health care costs savings.
Knowledge is power! Wisdom is using it to make good decisions!
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