Headline says to screen everybody.
Doctor says in the body of the story to screen everybody at high risk.
So which is it?
The USPSTF recommends screening for abnormal blood glucose and type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults who are at increased risk for diabetes.
Note: This is a Draft Recommendation Statement. This draft is distributed solely for the purpose of receiving public input. It has not been disseminated otherwise by the USPSTF. The final Recommendation Statement will be developed after careful consideration of the feedback received and will include both the Research Plan and Evidence Review as a basis.
Recommendations made by the USPSTF are independent of the U.S. government. They should not be construed as an official position of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
aparently if you are 45 or older, that’s high risk.
govt experts my ass.
Reconciliation of the question - everybody IS at high risk.
The slowing metabolic systems of everyone past what is commonly called “middle age”, also include a lessened capability of utilizing glucose efficiently and slow or sluggish endogenous generation of insulin. In the normal variation of human genotypes, this slowdown takes place at differing rates. Eventually, everybody is at risk for diabetes, if they live long enough.
There are several ways to “kick-start” sluggish or inactive insulin-producing cells, and there are also a number of ways to enhance the capability of individual cells to absorb and utilize glucose as an energy source. Most of the pharmaceutical methods of “controlling” diabetes focus on one or the other of these approaches. In the end, effective diet and exercise regimes do much more than any form of artificial means to reduce the tendency to develop either insulin insufficiency or insulin resistance.
My favorite was when I went to a talk about Alzeimer's, and they wanted to give everyone a questionnaire to see what our Alzeimers stage is. There's a "pre-Alzeimer's" category. If I have a potential to lose my memory, it's not something I'd want on my permanent medical records. I used a false name, of course.