Screen-And-Treat to Prevent Diabetes Doomed to Fail

Screening must be supplemented by broader public health approaches. Screen and treat strategies to prevent type 2 diabetes are doomed to failure, according to a large new systematic review and meta-analysis published in The BMJ.  Instead, the authors said and outside experts agreed, any effort to combat the already enormous and still growing problem of type 2...Click here to continue reading...

Source: CardioBrief - January 4, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Diabetes Policy & Ethics Prevention, Epidemiology & Outcomes glucose metformin population measures Public health screening Source Type: blogs