News:Study Shows It May Be Possible to Diagnose Diabetes Sooner

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(WikiDoc) - Certain metabolic changes start years before the onset of type 2 diabetes, according to research published online in The Lancet. The results from the WHITEHALL II study demonstrate it may be possible to identify people who are essentially "pre-prediabetes." Researchers looked at 6,538 UK civil servants without diabetes and followed up with them 10 years later. In patients that eventually developed the disease, scientists noticed sharp increases in pre and post-meal glucose levels starting a full three years before diagnosis. Though they say more research is needed, the study's authors conclude: “Our findings show various opportunities for screening and prevention. Although most prevention studies focused on prediabetic people, our findings suggest that people with prediabetes are already on the steep part of the glucose trajectory. We hypothesise that prevention would be more effective before this unstable period, but more research is needed to successfully identify people at this stage of disease development.”