16^th European Diabetes and Endocrinology Congress

Diagnosis of Diabetes

Diabetes may be analysed based on both plasma glucose criteria or  A1C criteria. Early in disease diabetes shows no symptoms so blood tests are used to diagnose diabetes and pre-diabetes. Clinical diagnostic in diabetes involve taking blood at a healthcare facility centre or commercial diagnostic centre and sending the sample to a lab for examination. To ensure that test results are accurate lab study of blood of required. Glucose calculating devices used in a health care provider’s office, such as finger-stick devices, are not precise enough for analysis but may be used as a rapid indicator of high blood sugar. Such area of research are highle discussed in  ADA annual meeting  and ADA sessions.