screening
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HbA1c, Fasting Glucose or OGTT: Choosing the Test
The three routes to a diabetes diagnosis measure different things, and they disagree often enough that which one you are given genuinely matters.
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False Positives and Negatives: The Arithmetic of Doubt
A test described as 99 percent accurate can still produce more false positives than true ones. The missing ingredient is how common the condition is.
