O laboratório de análises clínicas no diagnóstico e monitoramento do diabetes mellitus.

Abstract

Currently diabetes mellitus has been showing up a major public health problem affecting a large number of people in Brazil and worldwide. Chronic complications are largely responsible for the morbidity and mortality of patients with diabetes, such as cardiovascular disease, for example, represent the leading causes of death. In addition, other diseases such as obesity in young people, shows up as a risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus, as well as some habits, such as smoking and drinking alcohol. Making it necessary to use tests such as fasting blood glucose, postprandial blood glucose, oral glucose tolerance, and monitoring with fructosamine, important allies in the early diagnosis of this disease. The fasting glucose test is the first choice because it is more economical, and easy to perform. The postprandial glycemia, as an important predictor of death, such as cardiovascular disease. Glycated hemoglobin as a random plasma glucose test, saving the patient from the risk of misinterpretation due to the lack of correct information about the elapsed time after the meal, and effects of drugs, and finally, fructosamine, as a test can be used for monitoring of pregnant women or to check the blood glucose control over the past 15 to 21 days (which is the half life of serum albumin). Aiming this work highlight the importance of the use of these tests, as well as its monitoring to facilitate the discovery and monitoring of patients with diabetes facilitating and improving the quality of life for ourselves.