Blood test may predict who is most at risk for diabetes

Blood test may predict who is most at risk for diabetes 
Lisa Rapaport

(Reuters Health) - Adding a test normally used for diabetes monitoring to employee wellness exams could identify people who don’t have the disease but are at high risk of developing it, a recent study suggests. Researchers examined data from two different types of blood sugar test for more than 34,000 participants in a U.S. employee wellness program who didn’t have diabetes. At the start of the study, they all also had fasting blood sugar in a healthy range.

Article: https://in.reuters.com/article/us-health-diabetes/blood-test-may-predict-who-is-most-at-risk-for-diabetes-idINKCN1IO3DZ

Diabetes Care, online April 26, 2018

Elevated Hemoglobin A1c Is Associated With Incident Diabetes Within 4 Years Among Normoglycemic, Working-Age Individuals in an Employee Wellness Program

Dov Shiffman, Carmen H. Tong, Charles M. Rowland, James J. Devlin, James B. Meigs and Michael J. McPhaul
Diabetes Care 2018 Apr; dc172500. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc17-2500

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