A Harvard study showed that overweight patients have 75% less Growth Hormone than normal, and that this risk translates into a higher incidence of atherosclerosis. One might think that cardiologists would rush to treat their obese patients with HGH to prevent heart attacks and strokes. However, the AMA and thus state Medical Boards repeatedly harass physicians for using this natural hormone for treating practically any adult patient. In my opinion, it should be malpractice not to treat such patients, not the other way around. This amounts to just another catastrophe in the politics of medicine.
See Family Practice News, September 1, 2009, p. 16.
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