Thursday, 5 January 2017

NHS screening plan for type 2 diabetes 'inaccurate'

NHS screening plan for type 2 diabetes 'inaccurate' The NHS programme for screening those at high risk of type 2 diabetes is unlikely to have much impact, an Oxford University study in the BMJ suggests.

It concluded that inaccurate blood tests would give too many people an incorrect diagnosis, while lifestyle changes had a low success rate.

But the director of the NHS programme said its approach was based on "robust evidence". BBC News

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