Diabetes Mellitus Blog

In the absence of screening and repeated throughout the population, it appears logical to be screened individuals at greatest risk:

• families where there are known cases of diabetes (about 80% of diabetics have type 2 diabetes heredity known or unknown)
• male or female, who were overweight, defined by a BMI over 25 (just over 50% of men and 70% of women with type 2 diabetes are overweight)
• Women and their related genetic, having had transient diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes), or having given birth to children over 4 kg and / or a history suggestive of obstetric diabetic heredity)
• subjects over 45 years (the incidence of type 2 diabetes increases rapidly after age 45, peaking between 55 and 75).