Perbedaan Kadar Glukosa Darah Puasa 3 jam dan 8 jam dengan Chemical Analyzer

Background: Laboratory examination of glucose levels based on the time of blood collection consisting of fasting glucose, glucose 2 hours after eating and glucose during. Patient preparation that must be done for glucose testing is the patient fasts for 10-12 hours before carrying out the examination.
Objective: To determine the difference in blood glucose levels fasting 3 hours and fasting 8 hours.
Methods: This study is an observational analytic study with a cross sectional where this study compares the results of blood glucose levels by fasting for 3 hours and fasting for 8 hours.
Results: The average measurement of fasting glucose levels for 3 hours and fasting for 8 hours, respectively, was 85.45 mg/dl and 84.64 mg/dl, which were obtained from 38 research samples.
Conclusion: Based on statistical tests, there was no significant difference in the results of the examination of fasting blood glucose levels for 3 hours and 8 hours with a value of (Sig. 2 tailed) 0.713 > 0.05, but descriptively there was a difference.
Suggestion: Conduct research with more and proportional time variations (1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, 4 hours, 5 hours) so that it can be seen more clearly the process of decline, as well as using samples with a larger population and the method used in the examination. glucose to establish the diagnosis by the GOD-PAP method.
Keywords: Fasting blood glucose, fasting 3 hours, fasting 8 hours