A 33-year-old member asked:
Is having high fasting blood sugar levels but low hba1c good or bad?
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Dr. Rakesh Lattupallianswered
Internal Medicine 25 years experience
Bad: High fasting blood sugars is bad and usually associated with high hba1c levels.
But very low levels may be harmful (say less than 6).
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A 36-year-old member asked:
Is 6.5 fasting blood sugar bad?
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A Verified Doctoranswered
Endocrinology 53 years experience
A1c: The 6.5 is not a sugar level but reflects how well your blood sugar is being controlled.
It is best known as a1c which reflects uptake of sugar on your red blood cells.
6.5 is an ok number but don't get higher.
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A 42-year-old member asked:
Non- fasting blood sugar of 114 is this high?
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Dr. Philip Kernanswered
Endocrinology 45 years experience
not necessarily: Your glu after a meal varies with what you ate, how fast, the speed of your GI tract, etc. It is hard to precisely say whether your post meal glu are too high. If you are testing your sugars because you have diabetes, or are worried about diabetes, best to check fasting and pre-meal, and follow your a1c. Normal fasting glu is 100 or less. Diabetes is 126 or more. "impaired" is in between.
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A 29-year-old member asked:
What is the normal fasting blood sugar level at 65?
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A Verified Doctoranswered
30 years experience
Same as in younger : Normal fasting blood sugar for kids and adults is between 65-99 mg/dl. Young infants are not included in this category.
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A 36-year-old member asked:
What is a normal non fasting blood sugar levels?
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Dr. Linda DiMeglioanswered
Pediatric Endocrinology 30 years experience
High blood sugar: In most cases a blood sugar is high if greater than 200 mg/dl. A fasting blood sugar should be less than 126 mg/dl.
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