New test will diagnose type 2 diabetes 'years earlier' by examining compounds in the blood

A test that could diagnose diabetes years earlier than the current method is being developed by scientists.
The early warning could help prevent debilitating and deadly complications, such as strokes and heart attacks, blindness, kidney disease and nerve and circulatory damage.
The blood test detects type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, which accounts for 90 per cent of the more than three million Britons with diabetes.