The impact of population-level HbA_1c screening on reducing diabetes diagnostic delay in middle-aged adults: a UK Biobank analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

Screening programmes can detect cases of undiagnosed diabetes earlier than symptomatic or incidental diagnosis. However, the improvement in time to diagnosis achieved by screening programmes compared with routine clinical care is unclear. We aimed to use the UK Biobank population-based study to provide the first population-based estimate of the reduction in time to diabetes diagnosis that could be achieved by HbA_1c-based screening in middle-aged adults.

Methods

We studied UK Biobank participants aged 40-70 years with HbA_1c measured at enrolment (but not fed back to participants/clinicians) and linked primary and secondary healthcare data (n=179,923) and identified those with a pre-existing diabetes diagnosis (n=13,077, 7.3%). Among the r

SUBMITTER: Young KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9807472 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature