Hi,

I'm a medical student and currently i am revising diabetes. I was told of a question we got that had a list of tests and we had to match them to whether it was testing glucose management over the last 3 months, the last 3 hours, if they were a diabetic, current glucose management and also if they had peripheral oedema what test would you perform

I want to check that the last 3 months would be HBa1C?
the last 3 hours would be urine test of glucose?
the currnet management would be blood glucose?
to diagnose for diabetes would be fasting blood glucose?
finally for oedema i said check their blood pressure on the theory that a high blood pressure would force more filtrate out at capillaries causing oedema but this was incorrect so could it be albuminurea as this could cause a decreased colloid osmotic pressure in the blood thus causing less water to be reabsorbed and thus causing peripheral oedema?

thanks for your help,

Rob