How is diabetes Mellitus diagnosed?

Type 2 diabetes diagnosed

The fasting Sugar (Glucose) test is the favored way to make diagnosis diabetes. It is very easy to perform and suitable. After that the person has fasted during the night (minimum 8 hours), a single taster of blood is taken and sent to the laboratory for examination. This can also be done perfectly in a doctor's clinic using a glucose meter.

• Normal fasting plasma blood sugar levels are less than 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl).
• Fasting plasma blood sugar levels of more than 126 mg/dl on two or more tests on various days point out diabetes.
• A random blood sugar test can be used to make diagnosis diabetes mellitus. A blood sugar level of 200 mg/dl or higher point out diabetes.

When fasting blood sugar stay over 100mg/dl, but in the range of 100-126mg/dl, this is known as impair fasting glucose (IFG). Even as patients with IFG don’t have the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, this condition carries with it its own risk and anxiety, and is addressed away.