Fasting Blood Test

Fasting Blood Test When the doctor asks a patient to go for a blood test it is mostly done without taking any food before the blood test. Before going for the fasting blood test, the person should not be drinking, or eating anything for 12 hours before the test is being done. Some of the [...]

Fasting Blood Glucose

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Fasting Blood Glucose In today’s world it is natural a quite obvious that people are constantly contradicting their life styles which in turn leads to be the cause of many disease and sicknesses. This is a fact that nowadays hardly anyone is found who has not needed any medicinal assistance in his or her whole [...]

Blood Glucose Levels Chart

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Blood Glucose Levels Chart The blood of mammals contains an amount of sugar. In other words, glucose exists in the blood of mammals and the levels at which it exists is called blood glucose level or blood sugar concentration. Glucose is considered the primary source of energy in the body; where as fats and other [...]

Blood Glucose Meter

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Blood Glucose Meter A Blood Glucose Meter is a medical device which is used for measuring the concentration of glucose present in the blood. It is commonly used by patients with hypoglycaemia and diabetes mellitus. Only a small drop of blood is required to perform the analysis and it is obtained by pricking the skin [...]

Bayer Glucose Meter

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Bayer Glucose Meter Diabetes mellitus, more commonly known as diabetes is a metabolic disease of the body where the person has high blood sugar. This usually occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin or because the insulin in the body is does not absorb the sugar. There are basically two types of blood [...]

Free Blood Glucose Meter

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Free Blood Glucose Meter Diabetes mellitus is more commonly known as diabetes to the common man. Diabetes is a disease of the body where the insulin in the body is not produced in sufficient quantities or the insulin does not respond to or absorb the blood sugar. Diabetes is characterized by high blood sugar levels. [...]

High Blood Glucose Levels

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High Blood Glucose Levels The condition, in which a person’s blood stream contains more sugar than the body is equipped to handle, is called hyperglycemia and it is characterized by high blood glucose levels. It is more commonly called diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic disease, and there are no known cures yet. What can be [...]

Low Blood Glucose Levels

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Low Blood Glucose Levels Hypoglycemia is a condition characterized by unusually low blood glucose levels in a person’s blood stream. Literally, it means “under-sweet blood”. It is considered dangerous when low blood glucose levels fall below 70 mg/dL. It is most commonly observed in people who are either very young or very old, but it [...]

Normal Blood Glucose Levels

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Normal Blood Glucose Levels The blood of humans and animals contain some amount of glucose. The level of this glucose in the blood is called the normal blood glucose level or the blood sugar concentration. The normal blood glucose level which exists in humans and animals is generally maintained between the reference range of 3.6 [...]

Blood Glucose Levels

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You may wonder what are blood glucose levels. Blood glucose levels are important to monitor for nearly everyone, no matter what your sex or your age. The blood sugar level is a measure of the amount of sugar (also known as glucose) that is present in your blood. It may also appear by the name [...]