Jeff in reality Dr Google can often lead you to the wrong conclusions. Many conditions do have similarities to cause and affects. Some can cause the same type of damage. There are many unknowns in medicine. That is why researchers say could, may, linked as there are at times many uncertainties. Doctors can tell you this is damaged etc but at times that diagnosis is came too through elimination of possible causes. It is a deduction not a complete certainty.
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