Diabetes is diagnosed by a clinician from blood tests. By WHO criteria, a fasting blood glucose of 7.0 mmol/L (126 mg/dL) or more on repeat testing points to diabetes, and 6.1 to 6.9 mmol/L is impaired fasting glucose.
WHO/IDF: definition and diagnosis of diabetes mellitus (2006)Diabetes
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Blood sugar targets, what SHA covers for chronic care, what to ask at a clinic visit, and how to read the numbers: in English or Kiswahili, with sources.
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SHA lists chronic illnesses under its Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Fund. Which services and facilities are covered for you is worth confirming with SHA before you go.
SHA: benefits by fundGeneral health information, not a diagnosis. Tabibu does not change doses, tell you to stop or start a medicine, or diagnose diabetes. Those decisions belong with your clinician.
When it cannot wait. Very high or low blood sugar with confusion, vomiting, fast breathing or fainting is an emergency: call 999 or 112.