Diabetes testing

Diabetes: glucose testing

Diabetes test is a composition of laboratory tests allowing for early diagnosis of the disease. By performing the test for diabetes within this package, you will get the answer whether diabetes is the reason for your health problems.

Diabetes tests include:

• Morphology (blood collection)
  • Glucose
  • Glucose tolerance test (GTT)
  • Lipidogram (LDL, HDL, cholesterol, triglycerides
• General urine test (it is possible to collect a free urine container from the collection point)

Fast purchase of diabetes test

To purchase the diabetes test, patients should follow a fast few-steps procedure:

 

• Select a city from the available list
• Choose a specific facility
• Add a product to the basket
• Pay for the examination

Perform a diabetes test in your town

Main advantages of choosing a test:

• Possibility to choose a location and a convenient facility
• Performing the test in the morning - no appointment for a specific time is required
• No referral required - just come to any of our collection points
• Knowledge about general health
• Confirmation or exclusion of disease
• Patients can get a diabetologist consultation with a 10% discount

Diabetes: key facts

Excessive thirst, frequent urination, fatigue – do these make you uncomfortable? Have a diabetes test and make sure you do not have this disease.

Diabetes is a metabolic disease that affects the quality of life. If you experience weight loss, constant hunger and thirst as well as increased sleepiness, you should have a glucose test. Diabetes testing makes it possible to begin the treatment and minimise the complications.

Diabetes complications

According to estimates, in Poland there are over two million people suffering from diabetes. Every third person is unaware of existing disease. Underestimating the symptoms of diabetes can lead to unwanted consequences that can significantly affect the quality of life. It should be remembered that any disease should be treated – otherwise, it gets worse.

Complications of untreated diabetes may include:

• nerve damage (possible occurrence of so called diabetic foot;
• damage to the retina;
• stroke;
• kidney and heart failure.

How to detect diabetes?

Diabetes is diagnosed after collating the results of other tests, based on an interview, patient’s reported symptoms and the analysis of other factors such as family history. You should come to a laboratory to test your glucose level.

There are two types of diabetes: type I and type II. This disease affects people of all ages. The development of type II diabetes is greatly influenced by poor eating habits, lack of physical activity, and excessive body mass.

PLEASE NOTE: You should come for a blood test on an empty stomach.

The "Diabetes" diagnostic test package can be carried out, for instance, in the following towns: Warsaw, Wroclaw, Kraków, Poznan, Lublin, Katowice.

Package validity period: three months from the date indicated in the order confirmation.