{"id":3502,"date":"2004-05-06T11:28:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T11:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/this-seems-dumb\/"},"modified":"2004-05-06T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T11:28:04","slug":"this-seems-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/this-seems-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"This seems dumb to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The New York Times > Health > Vital Signs: Screening: Watching Diabetes and Dollars&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/04\/health\/04TREA.html?ex=1399003200&#038;en=46422a509ab3241e&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND&#8221;>The New York Times > Health > Vital Signs: Screening: Watching Diabetes and Dollars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Writing in Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers said the benefits of such universal screening were outweighed by the costs.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My optometrist &#8220;screens&#8221; her patients.  When she has trouble fitting lenses she pulls out a glucometer &#8212; in fact, she&#8217;s got the same model do I know &#8212; and tests the patients blood at the finger.  If high, she recommends that you go see your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, that costs about $1.00 or so per strip?  Doesn&#8217;t seem that expensive.  Of course, that&#8217;s not a 3 hour fasting test, but frankly I don&#8217;t like them and I don&#8217;t think they should be done until a few bad fasting tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}