It is relatively easy to for those diagnosing diabetes mellitus to establish the condition. Diagnosing diabetes became much easier when the American Diabetes Association established the criteria for diagnosing diabetes in 1997. The ADA followed up with additional guidelines for diagnosing diabetes in 2003 and again in 2010. But if your doctor is diagnosing diabetes mellitus for you, what will a positive diagnosis mean? The term diabetes mellitus refers to several diseases of abnormal carbohydrate metabolism that are all characterized by hyperglycemia. Diabetes diagnosing is confirming that there is impairment in insulin secretion, along with an accompanying resistance of different degrees to the action of insulin.

Diagnosing diabetes mellitus is based on one of these four abnormalities – hemoglobin A1C (A1C), fasting plasma glucose (FPG), random elevated glucose with symptoms, or abnormal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT). Patients with impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) are referred …