Introducing the ClearPath: how primary care practitioners might screen for early diabetes

Diabetes and its impact on the nation’s health is rarely out of the news. As I write this, there has been an announcement of the development of a Google/Novartis contact lens able to monitor and feedback glucose levels in a diabetic wearer. There has been several days where the national press have picked over the implications of a new study (1) Diabetic eye disease is the main cause of visual impairment in the working age population. The study reveals that there has been a marked increase in the number of pre-diabetics to 35.3 per cent  in the general population and a staggering 50.6 per cent of the over-forties with a body mass index above 25.