Subjects suffered from various combinations of neurologic findings, but 90% of patients experienced at least two or more abnormalities, while 60% demonstrated three or more abnormal neurologic findings.
Finding more abnormalities has been a great strategy for our industry.
And the medical-industrial complex has another way to find more abnormalities: it simply narrows the definition of normal.
Some believe that finding more abnormalities is the right strategy to improve the nation's health, but how much it reduces death and disability is open to debate.
Our ever more sensitive technologies turn up more and more abnormalities — cancers, clogged arteries, damaged-looking knees and backs — that aren't actually causing problems and never will.
But as researchers examined them more closely, they found more and more abnormalities, making the cells unsuitable for therapeutic use.
Newer digital mammograms detect a lot more abnormalities, and the estimates of overdiagnosis have risen commensurately: now somewhere between a third and half of screen-detected cancers.
The astronauts who had spent longer time in space exhibited more abnormalities, although some of those who had floated in space for less than a month also had eye changes.
It also checked for more abnormalities.
One or more abnormalities are found in almost all patients [11, 21].
