You are an endocrinologist in a Diabetes Centre, and a 38 year-old person who has no signs (symptoms) for diabetes arrived to your clinic, but when you checked his fasting blood sugar (FBS) level, it was 132 mg/dL (7.3 mmol/L). Based in these results, does this result indicate normal blood glucose? Explain        2.What should you then do for/ recommend this person?

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You are an endocrinologist in a Diabetes Centre, and a 38 year-old person who has no signs (symptoms) for diabetes arrived to your clinic, but when you checked his fasting blood sugar (FBS) level, it was 132 mg/dL (7.3 mmol/L).

    1. Based in these results, does this result indicate normal blood glucose? Explain

 

     2.What should you then do for/ recommend this person?

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