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Diabetic reference
Who is a diabetic?
Are you a Diabetic ???.
Who decides..?,
please read...
Actually it may not be so. Please read the following
Before 1997, the fasting sugar should be under 140.
WHO put a panel to reassess and made it 126.
All of a sudden, 14% of world people became diabetes overnight!
Is it true..?
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Dr. Ameet Thakkar
General Physician
34 yrs exp
Mumbai
Its not how you have put it in perspective. Diabetes affects a huge population globally considering Amy level of fasting sugar (140/126). Constant R&D efforts in multiple trials by multiple countries are on simultaneously. All the findings are then compiled and brought on a global platform for discussion by eminent doctors and researchers in the field. Various parameters like say complications of diabetes. All available data proved that the lower the fasting sugar the lesser is the chance of diabetes complications hence the lowering of value from 140 to
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