Treatment of borderline diabetes

QUESTION: RECENTLY; THEY CHANGED THE LEVELS, A FEW WEEKS A GO I WAS BELOW BORDERLINE, TODAY I AM ABOVE BORDERLINE, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN BENCH MARK.

1. THEY WANT TO SELLING MORE PRESCRIPTIONS?

2. FAST FOOD HAS CREATED A FASTER CHANGE FROM BORDERLINE TO TYPE 2?


ANSWER: Hi,

First of all, you have to know that every laboratory is having different borderline levels for blood sugar because the apparatuses and reagents differ.

As you probably know, when the doctors are taking blood for examination, they directly send it to the laboratory, where reagents are used for the measurement of the requested parameter.

These reagents are made from different companies and because of this, they have different ability to bind with the requested substance.

Besides this, you have to know that almost every country is having different borderlines because of the local variations of the metabolism.

You have to know that these variations in the metabolism are appearing as a result of the effect of the environment. The food, the climate, the radiation and other factors are causing changes in the speed of the metabolic process and in the amount of certain substances.

Besides this, there are several racial diversities in the metabolism and because of this, some of the advanced countries are marking this important fact.

You have to know that there are many studies suggested these changes in the diabetic borderline levels. There are several departments in the world, which are trying to find out how the environmental effect is changing the metabolism of certain individuals.

These departments are making statics about how many people are having blood sugar a bit high without developing diabetes. As a consequence, changes of the borderline levels are done based on these statics.

You are asking if they want to sell more prescription. Somehow, you are right because some of the countries have the policy to make changes in the borderline in purpose to increase the amount of prescriptions sold and to increase the amount of the tests.

This is a very inadequate way for gaining money, but some of the leading doctors are still thinking that the medicine is only a business.

If you are maintaining your blood glucose at the same time before and after the changes in the borderline, you don’t have to worry about. However, if an elevation appears, you are supposed to inform you doctor immediately.

Hope it helped! All the best!

Dr.Alba