• Question: When we get diabetes, does our blood have so much sugar in it?

    Asked by you cant see me to Andy, Duane, Giovanna, Katie, Theresia on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Theresia Mina

      Theresia Mina answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      yes!

    • Photo: Duane Mellor

      Duane Mellor answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      It is important to say which sugar, it is glucose which is the sugar in our blood, which is different to sucrose which is the common sugar we cook with

    • Photo: Andrew Philp

      Andrew Philp answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      One of the ways to screen for diabetes is to look measure the amount of glucose that is in the blood. So yes this is a good indicator

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