How Much Time It Would Take To Generate Report For Sugar Test?

Posted on Tue, 17 Sep 2013

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Tue, 17 Sep 2013 Answered on

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Question : How much time it would take generally to generate report for sugar test?

Answered by Dr. Indu Kumar (38 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Fingerprick test is intantaneous,fasting and PP2hr

Detailed Answer:
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Finger prick test for random blood sugar is instantaneous.After putting drop of blood on card,monitor detects it and value is displayed in machine.
But,it is less accurate than laboratory methods but it is very helpful in screening.

Laboratory machines need time for warmup during starting period and also it is operated when certain number of samples are collected ,so it may take 2-3 hours depending upon diagnostic centre.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Vaishalee Punj