Screening For Diabetes Is Working Better Than Thought

(By Katherine Hobson for NPR)

Undiagnosed diabetes may not be as big of a public health problem as thought.

That’s the takeaway from a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine that says that some previous efforts have likely overestimated the number of people with undiagnosed diabetes because they relied on a single positive test result. Continue reading article here…

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