Screening for Unknown Risk Factors

Diabetes Insight
Volume 5, Issue 16

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Screening for Unknown Risk Factors

Interview with:

Sean Sullivan, JD, President and CEO, Institute for Health and Productivity Management, Scottsdale, AZ

Biometric screening

Unless biometric screening is performed, up to 50% of risk factors in a workforce population will be missed. Many people simply do not know their risk factors, and therefore fail to report them on a health risk assessment questionnaire.

Unrecognized risk factors

In a study conducted with the city...