You Have Just Received the Laboratory Results for a Patient

question 98

Multiple Choice

You have just received the laboratory results for a patient suspected of having prediabetes. What would you expect the lab work to show?

• A) An FBS of 100 to 125 mg/dL
• B) A 2-hour OGTT over 200 mg/dL
• C) A glycosylated hemoglobin level less than 8%
• D) All of the above

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Definitions:

Staging Classifications

Systems used in medicine to categorize the extent and severity of a patient's disease or condition.

Pathologic

Regarding or caused by disease, or relating to the study of disease processes.

Autopsy

A post-mortem examination of a body to determine the cause of death or disease, performed by a pathologist.

Retreatment

The act of treating a medical or dental condition again after an initial treatment, often because the first treatment was not completely successful.