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? asked in HealthDiseases & ConditionsDiabetes · 3 weeks ago

How long does it take to fast for blood sugar?

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  • 3 weeks ago

    8 to 10 hours, my friend.  Plus, the figures that YOU give in your useless information are WRONG!

  • 3 weeks ago

    Fasting glucose test.

    A blood test will be taken after a short-term quick. A fasting glucose level under 100 mg/dL (5.6 mmol/L) is ordinary. A fasting glucose level from 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L) is considered prediabetes. In the event that it's 126 mg/dL (7 mmol/L) or higher on two separate tests, you have diabetes.

    Glycated hemoglobin (A1C) test.

    This blood test, which doesn't need fasting, demonstrates your normal glucose level for as far back as a few months. It estimates the level of glucose appended to hemoglobin, the oxygen-conveying protein in red platelets.

    The higher your glucose levels, the more hemoglobin you'll have with sugar connected. An A1C level of 6.5% or higher on two separate tests demonstrates that you have diabetes. An A1C somewhere in the range of 5.7 and 6.4 % shows prediabetes. Beneath 5.7 is viewed as ordinary.

    In the event that the A1C test results aren't predictable, the test isn't accessible, or you have certain conditions that can make the A1C test mistaken —, for example, in the event that you are pregnant or have an exceptional type of hemoglobin (known as a hemoglobin variation) — your primary care physician may utilize the accompanying tests to analyze diabetes:

    Arbitrary glucose test.

    A blood test will be taken at an irregular time. Notwithstanding when you last ate, a glucose level of 200 milligrams for every deciliter (mg/dL) — 11.1 millimoles per liter (mmol/L) — or higher recommends diabetes.

    Oral glucose resilience test.

    For this test, you quick short-term, and the fasting glucose level is estimated. At that point you drink a sweet fluid, and glucose levels are tried occasionally for the following two hours.

    A glucose level under 140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) is typical. A perusing of in excess of 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) following two hours demonstrates diabetes. A perusing somewhere in the range of 140 and 199 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L and 11.0 mmol/L) shows prediabetes.

    In the event that type 1 diabetes is suspected, your pee will be tried to search for the presence of a result created when muscle and fat tissue are utilized for energy on the grounds that the body needs more insulin to utilize the accessible glucose (ketones). Your PCP will likewise likely run a test to check whether you have the ruinous invulnerable framework cells related with type 1 diabetes called autoantibodies

    Your PCP may utilize the accompanying screening tests:

    Starting glucose challenge test.

    You'll start the glucose challenge test by drinking a sweet glucose arrangement. After one hour, you'll have a blood test to gauge your glucose level. A glucose level under 140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) is generally viewed as ordinary on a glucose challenge test, albeit this may change at explicit facilities or labs.

    In the event that your glucose level is higher than ordinary, it just methods you have a higher danger of gestational diabetes. Your primary care physician will arrange a subsequent test to decide whether you have gestational diabetes.

    Follow-up glucose resistance testing.

    For the subsequent test, you'll be approached to quick expedite and afterward have your fasting glucose level estimated. At that point you'll drink another sweet arrangement — this one containing a higher convergence of glucose — and your glucose level will be checked each hour for a time of three hours.

    In the event that in any two of the glucose readings are higher than the typical qualities set up for every one of the three hours of the test, you'll be said to have gestational diabetes..

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