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Diabetes detection is far better than has been feared

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DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2022/08/diabetes-detection-is-far-better-than-has-been-feared/

Not everyone with diabetes knows they have the disease. A survey of close to 53 000 participants found that far more people are being discovered with diabetes than was previously thought.

Diabetes can have major consequences for the health and quality of life of affected people, especially when left undiagnosed. Fortunately, doctors are able to diagnose the vast majority of patients, who can then receive treatment.

But a minority may have diabetes for a long time without knowing they have the disease. These patients consequently don’t reap the benefit of medications or recommendations for various lifestyle changes that can reduce the symptoms and risks associated with diabetes. But fortunately fears are abating as diabetes is being detected far more often.

“Earlier European studies have estimated that around 22 to 25 per cent of the people who have diabetes don’t know they have it. However, the International Diabetes Association estimates as many as 41 per cent of the individuals with diabetes in Europe have not yet been diagnosed,” says Vera Vik Bjarkø, a doctor and PhD candidate at NTNU’s Department of Public Health and Nursing.

DIG DEEPER at Norwegian SciTech News:
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2022/08/diabetes-detection-is-far-better-than-has-been-feared/
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