Tests for Diabetes

Checking your fasting blood glucose (sugar) levels makes a difference when it comes to successfully managing your diabetes. But are you also making sure to test your blood glucose levels after you eat - Madeline R. Vann, MPH

Tests for Diabetes
Tests for Diabetes

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When your “normal” blood sugar isn’t normal (Part 1)

Here’s the thing. We’ve confused normal with common. Just because something is common, doesn’t mean it’s normal. It’s now becoming common for kids to be overweight and diabetic because they eat nothing but refined flour, high-fructose corn syrup and industrial seed oils. Yet I don’t think anyone (even the ADA) would argue that being fat and metabolically deranged is even remotely close to normal for kids. Or adults, for that matter.

In the same way, the guidelines the so-called authorities like the ADA have set for normal blood sugar may be common, but they’re certainly not normal. Unless you think it’s normal for people to develop diabetic complications like neuropathy, retinopathy…

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  When your “normal” blood sugar isn’t normal (Part 1)

In this article I’m going to introduce the three markers we use to measure blood sugar, and tell you what the conventional model thinks is normal for those markers. And I’m also going to show you that so-called normal blood sugar, as dictated by the ADA, can double your risk of heart disease and lead to all kinds of complications down the road.

Diabetes Screening Test

Do you think you may already have diabetes? This simple online diabetes screening test helps assess your risk for having or developing diabetes but is not intended to replace an examination by your physician!

Diabetes Symptoms and Tests

There are several ways to diagnose diabetes, and each way usually needs to be repeated on a second day to be sure you have it.

Do I Have Prediabetes?

Risk test powered by the American Diabetes Association.

Glucose tolerance tests: What exactly do they involve?

There are two types of glucose tolerance tests: a short version called the glucose challenge test, and a full glucose tolerance test. The short version is easier to do and serves as a preliminal test to determine someone's risk of diabetes or gestational diabetes.

Oral glucose tolerance testing

The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is currently the gold standard for the diagnosis of diabetes. The recommended preparation for and administration of the OGTT are important to ensure that test results are not affected. Interpretation is based on venous plasma glucose results before and 2 hours after a 75 g oral glucose load.

Diagnosing Diabetes

The 2 main tests used to measure the presence of blood sugar problems are the direct measurement of glucose levels in the blood during an overnight fast and measurement of the body's ability to appropriately handle the excess sugar presented after drinking a high glucose drink.

Interpretation of 10 Results of Typical Glucose Tolerance Tests

The glucose tolerance test (GTT) consists of drinking 100 grams of glucose solution and measuring the blood glucose values every hour to get a curve. The values obtained tell a lot about the body's sugar metabolism. The following 10 tables of results are typical and are interpreted briefly.

CDC

You’ll need to get your blood sugar tested to find out for sure if you have prediabetes or type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes. Testing is simple, and results are usually available quickly.

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Do not try to diagnose yourself if you think you might have diabetes. Testing equipment that you can buy over the counter, such as a blood glucose meter, cannot diagnose diabetes.

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