Question 1

What are the latest diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes

mellitus?

Question 2

What test is recommended for diabetes and can the same be used to

diagnose diabetes in a child?

Question3

What is the value of glycosylated haemoglobin (HbA1C) in diabetes

mellitus?193

Question4

I read in a book that in diabetics the random blood sugar is more

important than the fasting; on a medical website I noted that, for a

patient with type 2 diabetes, the fasting blood sugar level is more

important. What do you say?

Is it acceptable to let the fasting blood sugar remain at approximately

1.5 mmol/L above the upper limit in a patient of60 years with type 2

and presently on oral therapy?

Question 5

In type 2 diabetes, which blood sugar - fasting or random - is more

revealing prognostically?

Question 6

What happens to the insulin-secreting capacity of a type 2 diabetic

placed on insulin therapy earlier than recommended? Can the external

supply of insulin improve the functional capacity of the insulin-secreting

cells, to some extent by providing some rest to these cells?23

Question 7

1. Is inhaled insulin a suitable substitute for injectable insulin?

2. Is there, or will there soon be, insulin in the form of a tablet?

Question 8

What are the complications of insulin other than hypoglycaemia and

injection?

Question 9

I would like to know the processes that go into administering the

Alberti's/modified Alberti's regime in patients with uncontrolled

diabetes mellitus.

Question 10

Is there any role for steroids in the management of resistant diabetes

mellitus (daily insulin requirement exceeding 100 units/day)? Don't they

make glycaemic control worse?