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A urine analysis may show high blood sugar. However, a urine test alone does not diagnose diabetes.
Your health care provider may suspect that you have diabetes if your blood sugar level is higher than 200 mg/dL. To confirm the diagnosis, one or more of the following tests must be done.
Blood tests:
Screening for type 2 diabetes in people who have no symptoms is recommended for:
DiabetesDiabetes is usually a lifelong chronic disease in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood. Causes, incidence, and risk factorsInsulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to control blood sugar. Diabetes can be caused by too little insulin, resistance to insulin, or both. To understand diabetes, it is important to first understand the normal process by which food is broken down and used by the body for energy. Several things happen when food is digested:
People with diabetes have high blood sugar because their body cannot move sugar into fat, liver, and muscle cells to be stored for energy. This is because either:
There are two major types of diabetes. The causes and risk factors are different for each type:
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