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Diagnosis -Diabetes is
confirmed in a patient who has the classic symptoms of polyuria, polydypsia,
weight loss, blurred vision, and who has a fasting blood glucose greater than or
equal to 126 or a random glucose greater than or equal to 200 and reproduced on
another occasion. -the oral
glucose tolerance test is no longer being using except in patients who have
suspected diabetes but don’t meet the above criteria.
-Hemoglobin A1c
is not currently used to confirm diagnosis, but rather to follow disease
progress (likely because of the variability between Hgb A1c measurements across
labs). |