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Scanning the lens of the eye could predict type 2 diabetes and prediabetes

September 16, 2019 0 Comments Chronic Illness, Diabetes, Diseases and Conditions, Eye Care, Healthy Aging, Hormone Disorders, Personalized Medicine, Wounds and Healing

New research shows that specialist analysis of the lens in the eye can predict patients with type 2 diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) (also known as prediabetes, a condition that often leads to full blown of type 2 diabetes).

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Addressing serious illness with a serious question to clinicians

September 13, 2019 0 Comments Diseases and Conditions, Elder Care, Health Policy, Healthy Aging, Medical Topics, Patient Education and Counseling, Today's Healthcare, Wounds and Healing

A question: 'Would you be surprised if this patient died in the next month?' — posed to elicit a clinician's overall impression of a patient — produced a strong correlation. If a clinician answered that they would not be surprised, the patient was twice as likely to die in the next month.