Tests to Diagnose Type 2 Diabetes

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Tests to Diagnose Type 2 Diabetes

If you experience the symptoms such as feeling of hunger, frequent urination, feeling thirsty then the doctor may recommend test such as fasting plasma glucose which will help to determine the presence of type 2 diabetes.

Studies have shown that fasting plasma glucose test is the convenient method for testing the presence of type2 diabetes as it is cheaper and less time consuming than other such tests. In this test, blood will be taken for analysis and one cannot eat anything for a time period of 8 hours. Another important method to diagnose type 2 diabetes is casual plasma glucose test. While doing this test a person is not restricted from eating as this test depends on the analysis of the amount of blood sugar level in the body.

Oral glucose tolerance test is performed during pregnancy to detect gestational diabetes, also on people who experience the symptoms of type 2 diabetes and to detect pre-diabetes in kids. Hemoglobin A1c test is used to find out whether your diabetes is under control. Other test includes examination of dilated eye along with regular eye checkup, foot examination to determine the cause of non healing wounds. Pre-diabetes in children can be detected with normal urine and blood test.