TABLE 2.
Random blood glucose measurements.
| Random blood glucose screening |
Occurrence |
Percentage |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reference ranges14,23,24 | Men (n = 111) | Women (n = 231) | Total (N = 342) | Men | Women | Total |
| < 5.6 mmol/L (100 mg/dL) | 33 | 76 | 109 | 29.7 | 32.9 | 31.9 |
| 5.6–7.8 mmol/L (< 100–140 mg/dL) | 57 | 124 | 181 | 51.4 | 53.7 | 52.9 |
| 7.8–11.0 mmol/L (140–199 mg/dL) | 17 | 22 | 39 | 15.3 | 9.5 | 11.4 |
| ≥ 11.1 mmol/L (≥ 200 mg/dL) | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| Unknown | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
Source: Reference ranges adapted from Bowen ME, Xuan L, Lingvay I, Halm EA. Random blood glucose: A robust risk factor for type 2 diabetes. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015;100(4):1503–1510. https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2014-4116; Bowen ME, Xuan L, Lingvay I, Halm EA. Performance of a random glucose case-finding strategy to detect undiagnosed diabetes. Am J Prev Med. 2017;52(6):710–716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2017.01.023; and Susairaj P, Snehalatha C, Raghavan A, et al. Cut-off value of random blood glucose among Asian Indians for preliminary screening of persons with prediabetes and undetected type 2 diabetes defined by the glycosylated haemoglobin criteria. J Diabetes Clin Res. 2019;1(2):53–58. https://doi.org/10.33696/diabetes.1.009