Calls for UK to screen for diabetes: Experts say cancer-like programme could spot cases earlier

Calls for UK to screen for diabetes: Experts say cancer-like programme could spot cases earlier The UK's 25million middle-aged adults should be screened for type 2 diabetes, researchers said today.

Scientists, who examined the medical records of hundreds of thousands of Britons, found that one per cent had undiagnosed diabetes.

This equates to 250,000 people aged 40 to 70 across the UK unwittingly having type two diabetes, their study suggests. The Daily Mail

See also:

• The impact of population-level HbA1c screening on reducing diabetes diagnostic delay in middle-aged adults: a UK Biobank analysis (open access) Diabetologica