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Diabetes Screening Isn’t Always Beneficial

By Dianne Finch on Wednesday, December 26, 2007.

New Hampshire is one of two states participating in an outreach program that urges seniors to get tested for diabetes.

Program advocates say that identifying seniors who have the illness - or are likely to develop it - will save lives and money.

But a researcher out of Dartmouth warns that diabetes is one disease where screening can do more harm than good.

NHPR’s Dianne Finch reports.

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