One Response to “Screening of Diabetes in the community”

1. admin says:

   April 19 at 5:36 pm

   In article <4f4rh9$…@jaring.my>,  <wenf…@pl.jaring.my> wrote:
   >I am interested in finding out any proven method of screening for Diabetes
   >Mellitus in the community. At the movement, I am planning to conduct a
   >community survey on the prebalence of Diabetes in the community by using
   >a 2-hours postprandal blood glucose test( to give the respondants 75g
   >glucose & test the blood glucose level 2 hours later). In view of the
   >limitation of unable to fast the community members overnight, can the
   >results obtained of valid in determine the status of the respodents and
   >the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in the community. Please help. Thanks.

   From what I’ve learned from reading this group, I would say that that
   would be a very effective preliminary screening method.  So far as I
   know, when people in the US do free en-masse diabetes screenings, they
   just do a single blood test whenever the person comes in.  That’s
   considerably less reliable, being quite likely to come up with false
   negatives.
   

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