Diagnosing Diabetes: Diabetes
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Diagnosing diabetes
While type 1 diabetes usually has obvious symptoms, such as frequent urination, increased thirst, and weight loss, type 2 often develops insidiously, showing few or no symptoms. This may explain why it often goes unnoticed at first. On average, people have type 2 diabetes for 9–12 years before they're diagnosed. To reduce this delay, experts now recommend that people ages 45 or older be regularly tested for diabetes (see "Guidelines for diabetes screening,").
| Last updated: | January 23, 2007 |
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