Family Doctors Don’t Help Patients Dodge Diabetes

Though family doctors should help patients take steps to prevent diabetes, they’re failing to help them avoid this crippling disease. The risk factors are well-known, but a study at Queen Mary, University of London, shows that family doctors aren’t paying sufficient attention to their patients who are at risk. The doctors aren’t offering the preventive medical advice these patients need.

Authors of the study examined 145 factors that are associated with type 2 diabetes. They discovered that there were seven risk scores — such as being overweight or having a family history of the disorder — that physicians could use to predict whether a patient may develop the condition.

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The researchers noted that about half of these factors were modifiable through diet, exercise or medication. Additionally, they said that diabetes prevention efforts are the best way to halt the rate of the blood sugar disorder, considering that there is currently no cure.

“If we stop people from developing diabetes in the first place we will prevent a great deal of ill health, save money, reduce use of [healthcare] resources and, crucially, save lives,” said lead researcher Douglas Noble.

Risk factors that appeared to predict the onset of diabetes most accurately included old age, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and family history. Effective weight loss plans have been shown to be a way of preventing type 2 diabetes.
 

Easy Health Options Staff

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