24 April 2015
IN FOCUS Health officials in the USA want physicians to help to reduce diabetes by asking at-risk patients to join diabetes prevention programmes. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
“…Clinicians may be talking to patients about their elevated blood sugar, but if it isn’t diabetes, some do not take it very seriously”, Ann Albright, director of the CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation, told The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. “But the evidence is clear that the earlier you intervene, the greater the likelihood is of either preventing or delaying diabetes or, if someone already has diabetes, preventing or delaying the complications.” [Continued: PDF ]
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