Check diabetes generally go to the endocrinology department, if some complications of diabetes need to go to the relevant departments, such as: diabetic retinopathy need to hang ophthalmology; diabetic nephropathy need to hang nephrology; diabetic vascular disease caused by coronary heart disease, need to hang cardiovascular department.
Endocrinology belongs to a group of departments that treat metabolic diseases and glandular diseases. Diabetes mellitus is an endocrine metabolic disease, so it is generally recommended that people with high blood glucose should consult the endocrinology department. Patients with high blood glucose on their first visit to the endocrinology department should have a glucose tolerance test if necessary.
Diabetes mellitus can be diagnosed if there are typical symptoms of diabetes mellitus (excessive drinking, excessive urination, excessive food intake, and loss of weight), and if fasting blood glucose of 7 ≥ mmol/l, or blood glucose of 2 hours after meal of ≥ 11.1 mmol/l, or random blood glucose of ≥ 11.1 mmol/l, or glycated haemoglobin of ≥ 6.5% is met, then diabetes mellitus can be diagnosed. If there are no symptoms of diabetes, there must be two episodes of diabetes.
If there are no symptoms of diabetes, the diagnosis can only be confirmed if the glucose in the vein reaches the above standard twice.
If there are some complications of diabetes mellitus, you need to go to the relevant departments, such as: diabetic retinopathy need to consult the ophthalmology department; diabetic nephropathy need to consult the nephrology department; diabetes mellitus caused by coronary heart disease, need to consult the cardiovascular department.
Diabetes is a systemic disease that affects health, and once the condition is serious, it is very harmful and requires early and active treatment.