Continuing professional development: Diagnosing diabetes

Module summary

This case-based module will guide you through the latest evidence in the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes

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Key learning points

To update you on:

The diagnosis of diabetes in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.
Conditions in which blood sugar is raised but does not meet the threshold for diabetes.
The management of women with a past history of gestational diabetes.
When to suspect the rarer variants, maturity onset diabetes of the young and latent autoimmune diabetes of adults.

Author

Dr Toni Hazell is a GP in North London

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