Klinefelter Syndrome

[CC]

To complement the 2005 Annual Clinical Focus on medical genomics, AFP is publishing a series of short reviews on genetic syndromes. This series was designed to increase awareness of these diseases so that family physicians can recognize and diagnose children with these disorders and understand the kind of care they might require in the future. This review discusses Klinefelter syndrome. (Am Fam Physician 2005;72:2259-62 Copyright © 2005 American Academy of Family Physicians.)

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20051201/2259.html

[Sofie]

..... was designed to increase awareness of these diseases so that family physicians can recognize and diagnose children with these disorders and understand the kind of care they might require in the future. This review discusses Klinefelter syndrome....
Klinefelters, a disease? :shock:

[DCmerlin]

from the article:

Of note, the 0.4 percent of boys with Klinefelter syndrome in the special-education cohort is likely to represent less than half the actual prevalence, because only paternally acquired disease was identified.

So it would appear that "They" think so.

-Dave

[CC]

Klinefelters, a disease?

Hi Sophie,

Medically speaking it is a disease and in the artical the doctors make the distinction between the genetic anomaly "XXY" and the disease "Klinefelter Syndrome"

We are born XXY, Klinefelters,is a condition/disease which "some" XXY's will go on to develope in later life,such as in the absence of hormone theraphy.

C.

[Maura]

I'm with Sophie,
I can't fathom how a genetic anomaly becomes a disease. Alcoholics Anonymous is always referring to alcoholism and drug addiction as a disease, although they are actually compulsive addictive disorders. XXY is a genetic disorder due to an extra chromasome. I somehow feel that by labeling these things as a disease it somehow opens the door for funding thus making it profitable for those involved in administering treatment.

[CC]

Do you mind if I disagree with you Maura,

http://47xxy.org/XXYorKS.htm

C


I somehow feel that by labeling these things as a disease it somehow opens the door for funding thus making it profitable for those involved in administering treatment.