What a widely cited meta-analysis taught me about diabetes risk

Type 2 diabetes does not present the same way in every population. In a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Diabetes Care, my co-authors and I examined how the relationship between insulin sensitivity and insulin response varies across ethnic groups. The paper has been cited more than 800 times.

The clinical point is simple and important. Two people with the same blood sugar can be there for different underlying reasons, which means the most useful prevention and treatment can differ too. A single global threshold can hide real differences in risk.

This is one reason precision medicine matters, and one reason decision support that can hold this nuance is worth building.