Early diagnosis of T2DM using high sensitive tests in the mandatory medical examinations for fishers, seafarers and other transport workers.

Jensen, Olaf C; Flores, Agnes; Corman, Victoria; Canals, Maria Luisa; Lucas, David; Denisenko, Ilona; Lucero-Prisno, Don Eliseo-Iii; Secher, Anna Elisabet Lilja et al. · Prim Care Diabetes · 2022

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Abstract

Transport workers like seafarers, truck-, bus-, train- and taxi drivers and fishers have a known great inequity in health at work including high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Their routine mandatory medical examinations use urine glucose for diabetes check with more than 50% false negatives, which should be replaced by high sensitive tests for diabetes-2, like A1C, Fasting Glucose (FPG) or Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT).

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