Reply #7: There's a good reason why Medicare pays for diabetes screening [View All]

[depakid]

who have either:

"A history of gestational diabetes mellitus, or delivery of a baby weighing greater than 9 pounds"

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/DiabetesScreening/

The public health literature ALL recommends screening based on this risk factor.

As a matter of fact- there's so much material out there listing this as a risk factor for women later in life- and urging them to get screened- that without developing a well refined seerch query, I haven't been able to find a good explanation of the clinical reason for this!

The database is crammed.

I'll ask one of the docs on Monday.