Article: Increase screening for 'prediabetes'. (HHS Recommendation).

WASHINGTON -- The epidemic growth of diabetes has prompted the Department of Health and Human Services to recommend screening all overweight people at age 45 for "prediabetes" and to consider screening younger, at-risk people such as those with a history of gestational diabetes.

This recommendation means that millions of Americans are now considered appropriate candidates for screening with fasting plasma glucose or oral glucose tolerance tests. (See chart, p.4.)

The announcement, made by HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson at a press briefing, is the product of a joint research panel of HHS, the American Diabetes Association, the National Institutes of Health, and the ...

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