Screening for type 1 diabetes

Every good medical student will learn the Wilson and Jugner criteria required for a good screening test. Although these 10 criteria were published in 1968 (Bol Oficina Sanit Panam 1968;65:281–393, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4234760), they still ring true today. In 2008, the WHO modified and updated these and produced 10 additional criteria for the genomic world (http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/4/07–0 50 112/en/). Type 1 diabetes mellitus has latency phases with normal sugar but positive auto islet cell antibodies (stage 1), abnormal blood sugar and positive autoantibodies but no clinical diabetes (stage 2) and finally clinical diabetes (stage 3). It is certainly and important health problem and …

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