Diabetes mellitus type 2 laboratory tests


 * Associate Editor(s)-In-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, M.B.B.S. [mailto:psingh@perfuse.org];

Diagnosis
The World Health Organization definition of diabetes is for a single raised glucose reading with symptoms, otherwise raised values on two occasions, of either :
 * fasting plasma glucose ≥ 7.0 mmol/l (126 mg/dl)
 * or


 * With a Glucose tolerance test, two hours after the oral dose a plasma glucose ≥ 11.1 mmol/l (200 mg/dl)