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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Should patients with diabetes be required to fast for lipid tests? No, say the authors of a review article published in the November issue of Postgraduate Medicine.
Others disagree, however, and debate on the topic is heating up.
"We would like doctors who treat patients with diabetes to ask, 'Do I really need to fast my patient for this test?' There is now strong and compelling evidence that in the case of the lipid-profile [test] perhaps we don't need to fast our patients," lead author of the new paper, Dr Saleh Aldasouqi ( Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing) told Medscape Medical News.
Dr Aldasouqi and coauthor Dr George Grunberger (Grunberger Diabetes Institute, Bloomfield Hills, MI), who is incoming president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, present a number of arguments in their article as to why they think fasting is no longer necessary.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/834431
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Others disagree, however, and debate on the topic is heating up.
"We would like doctors who treat patients with diabetes to ask, 'Do I really need to fast my patient for this test?' There is now strong and compelling evidence that in the case of the lipid-profile [test] perhaps we don't need to fast our patients," lead author of the new paper, Dr Saleh Aldasouqi ( Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing) told Medscape Medical News.
Dr Aldasouqi and coauthor Dr George Grunberger (Grunberger Diabetes Institute, Bloomfield Hills, MI), who is incoming president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, present a number of arguments in their article as to why they think fasting is no longer necessary.
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/834431
(free registration)
