Intended for healthcare professionals

Rapid response to:

Analysis Too Much Medicine

The epidemic of pre-diabetes: the medicine and the politics

BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g4485 (Published 15 July 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g4485

Rapid Response:

An awareness regarding obesity and obesity related complications is the need of the hour. In obese individuals as well as in family members with a susceptibility to diabetes a screening for pre-diabetes may prove useful. There is already the practice of screening and diagnosing metabolic syndrome in vogue. Therefore it becomes prudent to look for proper diagnostic or say screening methods for obesity and obesity related disorders including pre-diabetes in a population.

Competing interests: No competing interests

21 July 2014
d.sultan sheriff
professor
Faculty of Medicine, Benghazi University
Benghazi,Libya