Diabetes is on the rise, so why are we not bothered?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Asadullah Naqvi
- Source
- British Journal of General Practice. 63:236.2-236
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Diabetes risk
business.industry
Risk management tools
Type 2 diabetes
medicine.disease
Test (assessment)
Screening programme
Endocrinology
Hba1c test
Family medicine
Internal medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Lifestyle intervention
Medicine
Family Practice
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1478-5242
0960-1643
In regards to the article type 2 diabetes: prevention or cure?1 Mary Pierce explains that HbA1c testing compared to the glucose-based test would be a more practical scheme as suggested by the Leicester Group and that ‘ People identified as being in the top 50% of diabetes risk using a computer-based risk assessment tool, can be opportunistically offered a HbA1c test to identify those with diabetes and those at high risk who require intensive structured lifestyle intervention and annual HbA1c monitoring ’.1 She further states that ‘The Vascular Screening Programme with the diabetes addendum will …