Genetic tests without prescription
The availability of genetic tests sold on the internet, in pharmacies, gyms and beauty salons, at relatively affordable prices, has stimulated demand, and more and more people choose to take one. It is not recommended to take genetic tests without prescription and...Daily self-monitoring of blood sugar
Those diabetics who keep their blood sugar under control, through diet and medicine carrying a low risk of causing hypoglycaemia, should not be routinely required to self-monitor their blood sugar every day. In fact, there is no proof of significant benefit from the...Contraceptive pill and thrombosis risk assessment
Upon reports of increased risk for the most recent, third-generation pills (which contain desogestrel or gestodene or drospirenone as a progestin), many gynaecologists have started prescribing a series of preliminary analyses to women who request the pill, with the...
In the case of suspected late-onset autoimmune diabetes (LADA) or gestational diabetes mellitus, the search for anti-insular cell antibodies (ICA) and anti-insulin antibodies (IAA) should not be performed.
Search instead simultaneously for anti-GAD, anti-IA2 and anti-ZnT8 antibodies. The finding of even one antibody positivity among anti-GAD, anti-IA2 and anti-ZnT8 is a diagnostic criterion of LADA and suggests an autoimmune pathogenesis in gestational diabetes...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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