» » Dental Visits Could be an Opportunity for Diabetes Screening and Monitoring Glucose Control

Dental Visits Could be an Opportunity for Diabetes Screening and Monitoring Glucose Control

A new study has revealed that dental visits may be an opportune site for diabetes screening and monitoring glucose control for many at-risk patients. Researchers tested blood samples of 408 dental patients and confirmed that using gingival crevicular blood (GCB) for hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) testing produced values that were nearly identical to those obtained using finger stick blood (FSB), with a correlation of 0.991 between the two blood samples. Study's ...

Read More
You have just read an article categorized health titled Dental Visits Could be an Opportunity for Diabetes Screening and Monitoring Glucose Control.
Written by: editor - Friday, February 27, 2015

There are currently no comments for "Dental Visits Could be an Opportunity for Diabetes Screening and Monitoring Glucose Control"

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)