[Screening in primary health care. How do the new criteria affect the incidence of diabetes?]

Abstract

That type 2 diabetes is a disease fulfilling most of the criteria justifying screening is argued in the article. Currently there are probably 50-100,000 cases of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes in Sweden, i.e., 6-12 per 1,000 of the population, a figure that could be substantially reduced by more consistent use of opportunistic screening in primary care. With good organisation of daily work routines, the screening itself need not require significantly more resources. However, satisfactory management of newly diagnosed patients may require further resources and other, more effective reception facilities, particularly if the more stringent diagnostic criteria adopted in the USA in 1997 are ratified by inclusion the WHO recommendations soon to be published.