Don’t perform the determination of urine glucose for the monitoring of diabetes mellitus.

Don’t perform the determination of urine glucose for the monitoring of diabetes mellitus.

Type of practice

Laboratory tests

Age

Adult, Geriatric

Topic Area

Laboratory Medicine

Urinary glucose measurement lacks the requested diagnostic sensitivity. The test of choice for monitoring diabetic patients is glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c).

Sources

1. Standard italiani per la cura del diabete mellito 2018. Disponibile alla pagina: https://aemmedi.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/AMD-Standard-unico1.pdf [citato il 26 aprile 2023].
2. Mshelia DS, Adamu S, Gali RM. Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT): Undeniably the First Choice Investigation of Dysglycaemia, Reproducibility can be Improved. In: Stoian AP, editor. Type 2 Diabetes - From Pathophysiology to Cyber Systems, 2021. Disponibile alla pagina: https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/76474 [citato 26 aprile 2023].

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