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Be active, not passive, with how you screen for type 2 diabetes

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Work to uncover a subpopulation at risk

Based on population surveys, a significant number of your patients have diabetes, including approximately 25% whose disease remains undiagnosed. Taking an active screening strategy will reduce the number of women in your practice whose type 2 DM has not been diagnosed.

INSTANT POLL

Population studies have revealed that diabetic women do not receive documented contraceptive counseling at the same rate that healthy women do.

What do you think can be done to improve the contraceptive counseling that diabetic women receive?

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