How many laboratories have an assay defined as "glucose concentration
of a specimen thought to have been taken from a fasting patient" and
another assay defined as "glucose concentration of a specimen thought
to have been taken from a non-fasting patient"?
... or a flag used to carry the distinction
... or a canned comment that does the same?
Happy New Year
Jonathan
On 4 Jan 2005, at 14:41, Wills Philip (Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS
Trust) wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
> What "normal" range(s) do you quote (if at all)for random
> plasma glucoses (whether they are assayed on their own or as
> part of a profile) and why? Alternatively,do you only rely on
> appropriate comments?In particular,we are concerned with the
> balancing act between not invoking unnecessary GTTs but at
> the same time not missing undiagnosed DM in patients for whom
> the glucose may be an opportunistic finding depending ,of
> course on whether (unknown to us) the patient is really
> fasting.It would be clear that the upper values of
> 6.1,7.0,7.8 and 11.1 mmol/l all have their merits and
> demerits (cf WHO guidelines).I bet there is not a universal
> answer.
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