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Hi Steve

You seem to be assuming that health screening does save money by getting

disease early etc, but there are many health screening tests which actually

have an adverse effect on health eg mammograms - increase risk of breast

cancer and haven't been shown to reduce incidence of breast cancer deaths.

Cholesterol levels is another area much discussed on this list where the

drug companies encourage unrealistically low cholesterol levels because then

their statin drugs get prescribed, with all the dangers inherent in those.

CT scans, X-rays, colonoscopy etc all carry significant risks.

Regards

Susie

 

 

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steve brinkop

Chinese Medicine

Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:36 PM

Re: Digest Number 591

 

Hello .

 

I am trying to find out whether there are figures on how much money

patients and insurers can save by having regular health screenings.( Cancer,

diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, etc. )would be great to get some hint

where to look.

 

Thanks

 

Steve

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