Does taking furosemide daily affect glycemia (glucose) results?

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Does taking furosemide daily affect glycemia (glucose) results?

Please tell me if taking every day furosemide can raise artificially the glicaemya because I have always had less than 100 mg % and these days the results were 185 mg %, a value which I have never had before. Thank you.

submitted by George from Italy, on 11/7/09 Ask a Texas Heart Institute Doctor

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by Texas Heart Institute cardiologist, James T. Willerson, MD

No, certainly not of this magnitude. If this blood test was obtained with you fasting, I am afraid you have Type 2 Diabetes. Please see your doctor.

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