{"id":2395,"date":"2012-08-23T12:39:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T12:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/dbtsd\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:28:21","slug":"dbtsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/dbtsd\/","title":{"rendered":"American Diabetes Association Recommendations for the Screening of Asymptomatic Persons for Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) recommend diabetes screening beginning at 45 years of age; the ADA advises earlier screening in patients with risk factors.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>American Diabetes Association Recommendations for the Screening of Asymptomatic Persons for Diabetes<\/strong><br \/>\nScreen beginning at 45 yr of age, at least every 3 yr<br \/>\nScreen at any age and more frequently if the body-mass index is 25 or more and if the person has at least one additional risk factor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Family history of diabetes (first-degree relative)<\/li>\n<li>High-risk race (e.g., black, Native American, Asian, and Pacific Islander) or ethnic group (Hispanic)<\/li>\n<li>Glycated hemoglobin level of 5.7% or more or impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance on previous testing<\/li>\n<li>History of gestational diabetes or delivery of a baby weighing more than 9 lb (4.1 kg)<\/li>\n<li>The polycystic ovary syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Hypertension (blood pressure &gt;\/=140\/90 mm Hg; or therapy for hypertension)<\/li>\n<li>HDL cholesterol level of less than 35 mg per deciliter (0.91 mmol per liter), triglyceride level of more than 250 mg per deciliter (2.8 mmol per liter), or both<\/li>\n<li>History of cardiovascular disease<\/li>\n<li>Physical inactivity<\/li>\n<li>Other clinical conditions associated with insulin resistance (e.g., severe obesity and acanthosis nigricans)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes \u2014 2012. Diabetes Care 2012;35:Suppl 1:S11-S63.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/22187469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Inzucchi SE. Clinical practice. Diagnosis of diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2012 Aug 9;367(6):542-50.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/22873534\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created Aug 23, 2012.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[626],"tags":[1013,1096,1095,1094,684,211,1093,1092,200,382,645],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-american","tag-asintomaticas","tag-asociacion","tag-association","tag-asymptomatic","tag-diabetes","tag-personas","tag-persons","tag-recomendaciones","tag-recommendations","tag-screening"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9448,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/9448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}