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#309 Prediabetes & Type 2 Diabetes Screening: A USPSTF Quick Update

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Are We Screening at a Younger Age?

The rates of dibetes actually increase as you get older. We're looking at preventing some of those longger outcomes, like hard attacks, strokes and effects on the kidneys and on the nerological system. If it takes 20 years for a decrease rate in in death, then maybe we don't need to be screen at age 85. So having said that, again, this is a recommendation about when we definitely should screen, 35 to 70 with over in way to b city.

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