What do these people have in common?

Diabetes!

Diabetes

If the pancreas does not produce any/enough or body cells don’t respond to insulin a person may suffer with diabetes.

There are two types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2. Anyone know the difference?

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Use the internet to research type I and type II diabetes

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Health professionals, patients and diabetes

• Health professionals and patients with diabetes use physiological measurements to inform the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.

• They may test fasting glucose levels, use urine dipsticks and take blood glucose readings using ‘pinprick’ tests.

• Find out about each of these methods and write a short paragraph about each.

Fasting blood glucose test

Do not eat or drink anything except water for 8 to 10 hours before a fasting blood glucose test. These are used to diagnose diabetes, a condition caused by too much glucose (sugar) in the blood.

Fasting glucose test

• A fasting plasma glucose test, also known as a fasting glucose test (FGT), is a test that can be used to help diagnose diabetes or pre-diabetes.

• The test is a simple blood test taken after several hours of fasting.

Fasting glucose test

• A fasting glucose test will be performed in the morning as this provides the body with adequate time to fast.

• The NHS advises people who are having a fasting glucose test not to eat or drink anything except water for 8 to 10 hours before the test is performed.

• The test requires a blood sample to be taken from the patients arm.

• Fasting glucose test results

• The World Health Organisations defines the following fasting glucose test results:

• Normal: Below 6.1 mmol/l (110 mg/dl)

• Impaired fasting glucose: Between 6.1 and 6.9 mmol/l (between 111 mg/dl and 125 mg/dl)

• Diabetic: 7.0 mmol/l and above (126 mg/dl and above)

Urine dipsticks

• These are used by health care professionals to diagnose diabetes.

• A sample of urine is given by the patient and then a ‘dipstick’ is dipped in the sample.

• The colour of the test strip indicates how much glucose is in the urine.

Blood glucose ‘pinprick’ tests

• The patient takes a sample of blood throughout the day.

• The sample is placed in a machine which detects the concentration of glucose in the blood.

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