Heart screening unnecessary in type 2 diabetes patients with no symptoms

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 10:42 in Health & Medicine

Routine screening for coronary artery disease in type 2 diabetes patients with no symptoms of angina or a history of coronary disease is unnecessary and may lead initially to more invasive and costly heart procedures, according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine. They report their findings in the April 15 Journal of the American Medical Association.

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