Fasting blood sugar is what it means -- it's fasting, you haven't eaten, and usually in the diabetes world that means that you haven't eaten for about eight hours before you have the test done ...

Fasting glucose test: This test measures blood sugar (glucose) levels and typically diagnoses diabetes, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy).

I’ll start with the blood sugar test, the main purpose of which is to identify abnormally high glucose, either as diabetes or its precursor, prediabetes, also called borderline diabetes or ...

Doctors classify diabetes as a fasting blood sugar test of 126 mg/dL or above, and 200 mg/dL or above after a glucose tolerance test or a random blood sugar test.

Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) is a fasting blood sugar below 70 mg/dL. Severely low blood glucose levels (below 54 mg/dL) can increase your risk of complications like fainting and seizures.

This multi-step procedure requires women to fast for 8-12 hours before a baseline blood sample is taken, then they drink a solution containing a standardized amount of glucose, and after a set ...

The study, published on Friday in JAMA Open, finds people with Type 2 diabetes can successfully shed weight and manage their blood sugar by eating only within an 8-hour window each day.