Learn how doctors diagnose type 2 diabetes.

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Learn how diabetes patients can test their blood glucose levels – and why they should be monitoring blood sugars regularly.

Get the facts on this diabetes test, which is given after the patient fasts for 8-16 hours.

The hemoglobin A1C blood test checks how well your diabetes has been recently been controlled.

Diabetes patients often take urine tests to check for diabetes-related kidney disease and severe hyperglycemia (high blood sugar).

Kids may not have obvious symptoms before being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.