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<blockquote data-quote="Dark Horse" data-source="post: 2471660" data-attributes="member: 52527"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The diagnostic criteria for diabetes (from diabetes.org):-</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>"Methods and criteria for diagnosing diabetes</strong></span></p> <ol style="margin-left: 20px"> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Diabetes symptoms (e.g. polyuria, polydipsia and unexplained weight loss for Type 1) plus:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">a random venous plasma glucose concentration ≥ 11.1 mmol/l or</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">a fasting plasma glucose concentration ≥ 7.0 mmol/l (whole blood ≥ 6.1 mmol/l) or</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">two hour plasma glucose concentration ≥ 11.1 mmol/l two hours after 75g anhydrous glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">With no symptoms diagnosis should not be based on a single glucose determination but requires confirmatory plasma venous determination. At least one additional glucose test result on another day with a value in the diabetic range is essential, either fasting, from a random sample or from the two hour post glucose load. If the fasting random values are not diagnostic the two hour value should be used." <a href="https://www.diabetes.org.uk/professionals/position-statements-reports/diagnosis-ongoing-management-monitoring/new_diagnostic_criteria_for_diabetes" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.org.uk/professionals/position-statements-reports/diagnosis-ongoing-management-monitoring/new_diagnostic_criteria_for_diabetes</a></li> </ol><p>In other words, if you have no diabetic symptoms you would need 2 random blood glucoses above 11.1 mmol/l to be diagnosed with diabetes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dark Horse, post: 2471660, member: 52527"] [SIZE=5]The diagnostic criteria for diabetes (from diabetes.org):- [B][/B][/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=5][B]"Methods and criteria for diagnosing diabetes[/B][/SIZE] [LIST=1] [*]Diabetes symptoms (e.g. polyuria, polydipsia and unexplained weight loss for Type 1) plus: [LIST] [*]a random venous plasma glucose concentration ≥ 11.1 mmol/l or [*]a fasting plasma glucose concentration ≥ 7.0 mmol/l (whole blood ≥ 6.1 mmol/l) or [*]two hour plasma glucose concentration ≥ 11.1 mmol/l two hours after 75g anhydrous glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). [/LIST] [*]With no symptoms diagnosis should not be based on a single glucose determination but requires confirmatory plasma venous determination. At least one additional glucose test result on another day with a value in the diabetic range is essential, either fasting, from a random sample or from the two hour post glucose load. If the fasting random values are not diagnostic the two hour value should be used." [URL]https://www.diabetes.org.uk/professionals/position-statements-reports/diagnosis-ongoing-management-monitoring/new_diagnostic_criteria_for_diabetes[/URL] [/LIST][/INDENT] In other words, if you have no diabetic symptoms you would need 2 random blood glucoses above 11.1 mmol/l to be diagnosed with diabetes. [/QUOTE]
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