This would be great for diabetes patients. It might be a good early intervention measure for folks that are prone to be diabetic. But does such a test actually

This would be great for diabetes patients. It might be a good early intervention measure for folks that are prone to be diabetic. But does such a test actually provide benefit to the general public? Would an otherwise heatlhy 30-year old with a bad diet fail this test - or would it only show that despite his bad diet, that his blood glucose levels have been pretty stable the last 3 months? I'm thinking that in an ordinary person with a working pancreas, it wouldn't show the spikes of diabetes. That said, I do think these sorts of things work, especially when paired with labor protection policies that allow folks to miss work to go to the doctor (or be sick). For example, once I was in the Norwegian health system, I got a letter encouraging me to see the doctor for my cancer screening (I'm female). Turns out, they want folks to get one every 3 years and keep a database to keep track of who has gotten it and who hasn't. I don't know how well this sort of thing would work in a fragmented system like the US has, though.