Diabetes Package

1. Glucose (Fasting)
2. HbA1c
3. HOMA-IR
4. Insulin
5. Glucose tolerance test

Diabetes is a metabolic disease. An elevated blood sugar level is called diabetes. Diabetes is diagnosed when fasting blood sugar is ≥126 mg/dl, blood sugar at 2 hours of a 75 g OGTT is ≥200 mg/dl, HbA1c is ≥6.5%, or a random blood sugar is ≥200 mg/dl in a person with symptoms; in a person without symptoms, confirmation is required. If precautions are not taken in time and blood sugar is not kept under control, diabetes, together with high blood sugar and the toxic effects of sugar, especially on the blood vessels, can cause permanent damage in many of our organs and tissues, such as the eyes, kidneys, nerve endings, heart and brain vessels, and leg vessels.

Hyperglycemia: when blood sugar rises above 180 mg/dl, the kidneys begin to leak sugar into the urine. Sugar in the urine brings loss of salt and water. As a result, the person loses water, becomes very thirsty and feels the urge to drink a lot of water. Over time this cycle continues, and if it persists for a long period, symptoms such as water and weight loss, weakness and fatigue may occur. However, if hyperglycemia develops slowly over many years, it may show no symptoms at all.

Hypoglycemia: in a person with diabetes, a blood sugar level falling below 70 mg/dl is hypoglycemia and requires treatment; below 54 mg/dl is clinically significant. In mild hypoglycemia, complaints such as hunger, tremor, sweating and palpitations occur, whereas in severe hypoglycemia the sugar level drops far below 50 mg/dl, and because the brain cannot find the sugar it needs in the blood, the brain is deprived of sugar and loss of consciousness progressing to coma may occur.

During working hours, you can visit our Nicosia or Kyrenia laboratory branches and have your tests done with a simple blood sample.