Brittle Diabetes Life Expectancy
- Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
- What Is It? & Symptoms
- Diagnosis & Expected Duration
- Prevention & Treatment
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Diagnosis
Diabetes is diagnosed by testing the blood for sugar levels. With the fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test, blood is taken in the morning after fasting (not eating anything) overnight. Typically, the body keeps blood sugar levels between 70 and 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), even after fasting. Diabetes is diagnosed if a blood sugar level after fasting is greater than 126 mg/dL. Another test, the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) involves measuring the blood sugar level two hours...
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Diabetes
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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