“Blood-sugar is typically what we check when we identify those who are at risk for diabetes, and we do it as a screening test, as well. Generally we do a finger stick or blood serum analysis to determine what your blood sugar is, typically eight to ten hours before eating or eight to ten hours after your last meal. Now the range has changed over the years. Initially the cutoff for a normal glucose was less than 120. But currently the cutoff is less than 95. Anyone who’s above 95 really classifies as somebody who’s at risk for diabetes. Those individuals will actually come in at about 135 to 140 or even higher – those are people who are either at diabetic range or even exceed the range at which they have diabetes which is not under good control.”
Make an appointment with Berestrand Williams, MD, FAAP
Berestrand Williams, MD, FAAP is a board certified primary care doctor at Mount Sinai Doctors, seeing patients of all ages Monday – Friday. Trained in Connecticut and Massachusetts, he is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Internal Medicine and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Physicians.
After majoring in Biology and graduating with honors from Harvard University, he was awarded his medical degree from the University of Connecticut’s School of Medicine and completed two residencies – one in Internal Medicine at Boston University’s Boston City Hospital and another in Pediatrics at the combined Boston University School of Medicine – Harvard Pediatric Residency Program.
Prior to joining Mount Sinai Doctors, he practiced at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center for nine years and then served as Chief of Primary Care at Concentra Urgent Care and Family Medicine Center. He has been nationally recognized, receiving the Surgical Scholars Award in 1987 and the AOL Foundation Grant: Franciscan Children’s Hospital in 2001. Dr. Williams is fluent in Spanish.