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Is diabetes the only cause of rise in blood glucose?
No blood sugar levels can rise due to other diseases too
Last updated on 28 Sep 2023
Postprandial means after a meal. This test is done to see how your body responds to sugar and starch after you eat a meal. As you digest the food in your stomach, blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels rise sharply.
A healthy blood glucose range on a fasting test is between 70 and 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). A healthy blood glucose level on a non-fasting blood glucose test is under 125 mg/dL.
No, you fall under prediabetes. One can reverse it by eating low carbohydrate diet and exercising daily.
1 gram of pure glucose will raise your blood sugar about 5 mg/dl, although it may vary with person's weight, Diabetes status and current blood sugar level
Body breaks down glucose into energy. Insulin then helps move the glucose from blood into the cells.
Fasting Insulin, Insulin Serum, Insulin F
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