Posts Tagged ‘Screening’

Free Kidney Screening Set For Thurs. In Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS — A free kidney health screening will be held at the Holiday Inn City Centre, 100 West Eighth St. in Sioux Falls, at 3-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28.

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In an annual supplement to the journal Diabetes Care, published Dec. 29 by the American Diabetes Association, the A1C test is given a prominent role in the 2010 guidelines for diabetes screening, diagnosis and prevention. At least 50 million adults and children in the US may be well on their way to developing type 2 diabetes, according to John Buse, MD, Ph.D., professor of medicine and endocrinology chief at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Buse is former ADA president for medicine and science and a member of the International Expert Committee whose report in July 2009 strongly recommended the A1C assay for diabetes diagnosis and for identifying people at high risk for diabetes. Read more at www.unchealthcare.org

Ask Dr. Hallberg: Screening for Alzheimer’s disease
New proposed screening guidelines for Alzheimer’s are aimed at detecting the disease earlier in patients concerned about memory loss. But would you want to know if you have the disease if there isn’t much you can do to prevent its onset?

Study Questions Guidelines on Cholesterol Screening in Kids
Current government recommendations suggest screening for high cholesterol in children with a family history of heart disease or high cholesterol, but this misses many at-risk kids