Risky rice?

A study linking consumption of white rice with risk of type 2 diabetes has gained an amount of excitable press coverage. NHS Choices Behind the Headlines assesses the merit of this meta-analysis and systematic review and finds it adequate but not overly well represented in the media. Meanwhile, a study from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) finds that the HbA1c test is a cost effective pre-diabetes test where the threshold for diagnosis is set at 5.7%, rather lower than the current US level of 6.5%.