US panel: No evidence that screening children for diabetes is necessary
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Although the proportion of U.S. youths diagnosed with type 2 diabetes has doubled since 2021, experts have found no evidence that screening children for the disease is necessary.
Concerned that the rise would lead to increased complications later in life, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force ordered a systemic review of literature to assess benefits and potential harms of screening asymptomatic children and adolescents for type 2 diabetes and prediabetes.
The nongovernmental advisory panel, which makes evidence-based screening recommendations, found that while there is plenty of evidence to support screening adults for type 2 diabetes, there was not enough to make a similar recommendation for asymptomatic youth, the group wrote on Tuesday in the JAMA medical journal.