Labelling people with moderately high blood sugar as pre-diabetic is a drastically premature measure with no medical value and huge financial and social costs, say researchers. The analysis considered ...
A study from The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center indicates that changes in the body that lead to type 2 diabetes occur long before current diagnostic thresholds for ...
Elevated 1-hour plasma glucose was a better predictor for prediabetes risk than fasting plasma glucose and 2-hour plasma glucose.
Under the American Diabetes Association's unilateral expansion of the definition of "pre-diabetes," more than one third of U.S. adults have the condition. MinnPost’s reporters work hard to bring you ...
Johns Hopkins researchers who distributed a survey at a retreat and medical update for primary care physicians (PCPs) report that the vast majority of the 140 doctors who responded could not identify ...
How did pre-diabetes enter the medical vocabulary? Does it serve to improve our health -- or is it just an opportunity to create a market for medical thinking and medical sales? Charles Piller has ...
About The Study: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recently recommended lowering the starting age for diabetes screening to 35 to facilitate ...
TUESDAY, July 25, 2017 -- Most primary care doctors can't identify all 11 risk factors for prediabetes, a small new survey finds. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University said their findings should ...
A new survey suggests primary care physicians need more medical education to help them better identify patients at risk for developing diabetes. Although the sample was small, it found most primary ...