“We don't believe there's a syndrome. We don't believe that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We don't believe that the formula is grounded in scientific evidence.”
“We greatly support the idea of helping people with diabetes better manage their disease. We also are concerned with information about a person's individual medical condition becoming publicly known.”
“We shouldn't be diagnosing people with the 'metabolic syndrome.' Doing so misleads the patient into believing he or she has a unique disease. What they really have are well-known cardiovascular risk factors. The combination of risk factors does not add up to a more significant or higher cardiovascular risk than the individual components,”