The Whole Person

With the complexity of people and their chronic diseases the simplistic classification system of diagnosis of those disease states must be restructured. With the direct correctional relationship between say hypertension and diabetes people have to stop looking at them as separate disease states. 75% of Diabetics die related to cardiovascular complications yet people see diabetes and heart disease as two separate issues. People have to start looking at their own individual lifestyles and see the cause and effect relationship between their disease states.