Original sentence: Consistent with previous studies, a recent CDC study reports that a majority of individuals in the United States (62%) used some form of CAM in the year leading up to the study.However, many fear that conventional practitioners may be biased or uninformed about alternative care and worry that disclosure of use may damage their doctor-patient relationship.When prayer specifically for health reasons is excluded, this number drops to just over one third (36%)
Edited sentence: , 54.9%) used CAM in conjunction with conventional medicine.Consistent with previous studies, the CDC recently reported that the majority of individuals in the United States (i.However, many conventional practitioners are biased or uninformed about alternatives, and patients are often reluctant to share this information with their medical doctors since they fear it will hurt their doctor-patient relationship