Saturday, 8 December 2012

Do you know what are THE CRITERIA for diagnosis???



The American Diabetic Association (ADA) had deal out diagnostic criteria for diabetic mellitus in 1997 with follow-up in 2003 and 2010. There are four types of tests can be used for diagnosis of diabetes mellitus:

ü  Casual plasma glucose concentrationalso called as random venous plasma glucose concentration
– Casual referred to the blood is taken at any time of day without regarding the last meal times.

ü  Fasting plasma glucose (FPG)
– Fasting is defined as no caloric intake for 8 hours but water consumption is allowed.

ü  Oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT)
– Drink a glucose load containing the equivalent a 75 g of anhydrous glucose dissolved in 100 ml of water. The glucose level is compared before and 2 hours after glucose load intake. 

ü  A1C test also called the heamoglobinA1c, HbA1c, or glycohemoglobin test.
 – Blood glucose level is measured by the amount of glycosylated heamoglobin (HbA1c) in blood.

Table below show the criteria of blood glucose level diagnosis with diabetes mellitus published by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006.  



In 2011, WHO had recommended anaddition of new criterion in diagnosis of diabetes mellitus which is A1c test. The result of HbA1c test reported in percentage form. The higher the percentage, the higher the blood glucose levels in an individual. The criteria show in a table below. 


The following table provides the blood test levels for diagnosis of normal, prediabetes (also called Impaired Fasting Glucose (IFG)), and diabetes.


 Source: Adapted from American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes—2012. Diabetes Care. 2012;35(Supp 1):S12,

Take note for pre-diabetes:
Ø  Fasting plasma glucose refer to impaired fasting glucose
Ø  OGTT refer to impaired glucose tolerance (1GT)








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