DEAR DR ROACH: I am a 74-year-old Chinese man with controlled hypertension, and I’m currently taking a statin at 10 mg. I am puzzled and confused with my recent tests results. They show that my ...

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Blood sugar tests measure the amount of glucose in your blood and help detect prediabetes, diabetes, and blood sugar ...

A new position statement from the International Diabetes Federation advises using a 1-hour 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to improve identification of people at risk of developing type 2 ...

The 2-hour post-load glucose (2hPG) obtained from an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is better than A1c or fasting plasma glucose for dysglycaemia screening and predicting cardiovascular (CV) ...

Diabetes is a risk factor for cognitive decline. In a study of the University of Turku and Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, the researchers observed that already a higher two-hour glucose ...

Q: I’m confused by the relationship between my blood glucose level and A1c. My blood glucose has crept up from 100 to 112 in one year after I started taking 40 mg of atorvastatin. My A1c level is 5.1 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m confused by the relationship between my blood glucose level and A1C. My blood glucose has crept up from 100 to 112 in one year after I started taking 40 mg of atorvastatin. My A1C ...