GLY · Glycémie
Fasting blood glucose
The amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood after fasting.
- Sample
- Blood draw
- Tube
- Fluoride tube (grey cap) · fluorure de sodium / oxalate · 0.5 mL
- Usual turnaround
- 3 h
- Price
- 300 DA Indicative prices, in dinars; the final amount is on your invoice.
- Nomenclature code
- B-001
How to prepare
- Fasting for 8 hours: nothing to eat or drink except water.
What can influence it
Fasting, a recent meal, some medicines, an acute illness.
Questions to ask your doctor
What does this result mean for me? Should it be repeated, and when? Should anything change in my treatment?
Your doctor will interpret the result with your history.