If I had known I was to live so long, I would have taken better care of myself. Jim N87349 -----Original Message----- From: Percy Pwood Georgia Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 23, 2000 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [COUPERS] Diabetes
Not quite, Larry.
You are correct about the low blood sugar. Sugar is what your
brain runs on, so being less than 80 mg/dl is the moral equivalent of
drunkeness. And you are also right on about it being A Lagitiment
Concern of the FAA. In the insulin-dependent diabetic, the person
can be fine climbing into the cockpit, then be in la-la-land right
after lift off.
The FAA high point is 150 mg/dl. What they are really after is
a thing called the A1c, or glucolated hemogloben. They like to see
less than 6 or 7 percent. The A1c is supposedly the average blood
glucose, over a 3 month span of time.
BTW, the "official" diagnosis point for adult onset diabetes is
129 mg/dl; fasting, seen over two times.
The last thing I want to say is that Adult Onset Diabetes usually
shows up 45 - 55 years old. But it only happens to those who have
not died of anything else before then. And the average human life
span used to be 35...
At least I'm older than my Ercoupe.
Percy in Portland
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