Dan Abel > wrote:

> Handy Gandy > wrote:

>> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:03:36 +0000, Aussie wrote:

>>> his glucose dropped from 104 to 94.

>> Interesting but glucose ( by which I presume he meant blood glucose )
>> would not be a good measurement because blood glucose varies widely over
>> a period of time. The ten point drop could easily be seen if he measured
>> the first time 15 minutes after a meal and the second time 3 hours after
>> a meal.

>> A better quantity to measure would have been his A1C (30~45 day average
>> ofhis blood glucose ) or fructosamine levels ( 14 day average ).

>That's why serious blood glucose tests are almost always done fasting.
>As he had a lipid panel done at exactly the same time, that just
>confirms it in my mind. My experience, which is not necessarily that
>broad, is that cholesterol tests are always done fasting. The fact that
>his glucose tests have the note that "normal" is 70-99 also confirms
>that it is fasting.

I agree. He must have been talking about fasting glucose. But I note the
last time this came up there was no agreement in the group on this point.

Tangentially, I just had my fist HbA1C reading and it was 5.5%. This is
on the high side but not quite prediabetes. My doctor says nothing
to worry about. But I think it's a hint that I need some lifestyle
improvements (fortunately, there is room to make a few of those).

Steve