Please note that 72mg/dl of sugar equals to 4mmol/l of sugar. The blood sugar level is calculated with two different units. They are mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter) and mmol/L (millimoles per ...

Doctors use your creatinine levels to estimate how well your kidneys are filtering the blood, which is called the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Normal creatinine levels Creatinine levels vary ...

Achieving a “normal” blood sugar or glucose level is a bit of a misnomer. Often, the word “normal” is used to reference what someone’s blood sugars might be if they didn’t have diabetes.

It is an industry that was supposed to be cleaned up, after the turn-of-the-millennium­ notoriety surrounding so-called blood or conflict ­diamonds—precious stones mined in African war zones ...

Lowering your blood alcohol levels naturally takes time, but could there be a solution to make the process faster? So we decided to do our own research: We asked a doctor and three food scientists ...

In this test, blood is drawn into a Westergren-Katz tube until the blood level reaches 200 millimeters (mm). The tube is stored vertically and sits at room temperature for an hour. The distance ...

"Testing shows more than 9 percent of our children citywide have very high blood levels, and in some parts of the city nearly one in five kids are affected," said Oceanna Fair of Families for Lead ...

Illustration by Andrei Cojocaru; Photos by Getty Supported by By Nina Agrawal More than one in three adults in the United States has prediabetes, higher-than-normal blood sugar levels that can ...

The Vitamin D Blood Test (25-OH Vitamin D): Who, How, When, and Where Clinically speaking, things began to change in the 1970s when the blood test for vitamin D (known as the "25-OH vitamin D ...

The Blood Bag Market in India is propelled by the rising chronic disease rates, an uptick in surgical procedures, and government initiatives to bolster healthcare infrastructure are key drivers.

which checks blood levels for a combination of phosphorylated Tau-181 and apolipoprotein E4—could be counted on to help identify patients who were unlikely to have the amyloid plaque deposits ...