[Ray V]

I have always wondered if these reports measure effects, causes, or things that may have a related unmeasured cause. For example, is there something about the autoimmune response in diabetes that also is involved in a disposition to MDS?

Also, I wonder just how many people are walking around and are asymptomatic and thus not getting a diagnoses. In other words we may only be sampling from one end of the bell curve of patients and thus biasing the results. The real number of patients may be far higher than this report indicates and a great many of them may never develop symptoms or have a bone marrow test done and continue to lead otherwise normal lives.