Is a blood sugar count of 140 considered type 2 diabetes?
This is 140 fasting. If not, when does type 2 take place…Thanks!
For my wife…5′ 1"…120lbs
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Below is a very good link relating to diabetes. It tells the different types (90% of diabetes sufferers have Type 2). Lab normals usually differ somewhat but I believe a Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS) count of 140 if not considered diabetes is borderline high. back when I was in the Air Force if a patients FBS was high we would repeat it. Encouraging the patient to watch the sugar intake (you can run a search on Glycemic Index) and educate yourself to the amount of sugar contained in various fruits. We would repeat the FBS and if it was still high we would run a 3 hour Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT). Blood is drawn fasting , then you drink a sweet liquid containing glucose. It is used now mostly to test for "gestational diabetes". Then your blood is drawn at 1 hour intervals from 1 to 3 hours after ingestion of glucose. It was the standard testing method many years ago and I personally still think it is a good idea in people who have borderline high FBS numbers. I just had my FBS done (family history of diabetes) and a normal it is borderline high but I can control it with diet. I don’t remember exactly but I believe the lab norms at The Veterans Administration Medical Center locally the upper end of normal is 110-120. Check the link below as it explains everything. Best of luck.
type 1
For a diagnosis of Type II diabetes, you need two consecutive fasting blood sugar levels of 126 or higher.
Type I diabetes is caused by a genetic problem which results in the destruction of the pancreas’s beta-islet cells and is diagnosed much earlier in life (usually as an emergency called diabetic ketoacidosis).