A Fasting Blood Sugar test measures the amount of glucose in your blood after an overnight fasting for around 10 hours. The commonly used unit of measurement is mg/dL If you have less than 100 mg/dL glucose level in your blood, you don’t have any diabetic issue. If it goes between 100 mg/dL and 125 mg/dL, you’re pre-diabetic. If it’s above 125 mg/dL, you are diabetic.
Other names of FBS test are: Blood Sugar Fasting (BSF) and Glucose Fasting.
Your healthcare advisor may suggest a Postprandial Blood Sugar (PPBS) test along with an FBS test. If you don’t have a diabetic history, you may just go through an Random Blood Sugar (RBS) test to know whether you’re diabetic or not.
Besides the Fasting and Postprandial Blood Sugar tests, a diabetic patient may need a HbA1c test to monitor his blood sugar level during a 90 day phase. A HbA1c test report is more effective in monitoring diabetes.
Along with the above basic diabetic tests, you may also need some advanced diabetic diagnosis tests like Fructosamine, Blood Ketone, Urine Creatinine Albumin Ratio, Homa IR, etc. With all these tests, a Complete Diabetic Profile full body checkup can be more can be more helpful in controlling diabetes.
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