Which is the standard diabetes test?

Diabetes is defined as a repeated fasting glucose level of above 7 mmol/L. Venous blood is used for the diagnosis. Capillary blood is only used for self-monitoring by the patient.

The best diagnostic test currently recommended by the ADA is actually an HbA1c.

Other diagnostic tests are an 75g OGTT, an 8hr fasting glucose, or a random glucose >200 in a classically symptomatic pt.

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>>7837325
T1 Diabetic here. Are you talking about testing BG for daily care, testing BG for how your overall health is going, or testing BG is see if one is diabetic?

>>7839266
Testing for overall health.

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>>7837325
The glucometer you pictured gets its blood from a fingerprick. I think that's capillary blood (I'm a diabetic not a person who knows biology). That shows the present glucose levels so it will detect both forms of diabetes if they're at the point where blood sugars are consistently high. If someone comes into a hospital showing symptoms of hyperglycemia they use a glucometer and it detects it. A normal human eating normal amounts of food will have a blood sugar between 5 and 8 mmol/L. A diabetic's will get much higher because the body doesn't start trying to get rid of glucose through piss until around 12 mmol/L and this isn't particularly effective.

There's another test called "Hemoglobin A1c" that shows the average glucose over several months. Diabetics get this to evaluate how well controlled they are. It can also detect early signs of type 1 and 2 diabetes that a glucometer can miss because the person's blood sugar is normal at the time of testing.