What is a glucose tolerance test?
The glucose tolerance test is a lab test to check how your body stores sugar from the blood into tissues like muscle and fat.
Last updated on 15 Mar 2023
It is done to diagnose diabetes such as fasting glucose. However, post prandial is done after 2 hours to check how the body stores sugar in muscles after food consumption after 2 hours.
Yes, it is not that alarming. One falls under the category prediabetes.
Yes, it is slighlty more than normal one falls under the category prediabetes.
Avoid eating high sugar foods and refined carbs for atleast a week before the test and glucose test will usually come normal
Doctors use blood tests to diagnose gestational diabetes such as glucose fasting and glucose intolerance.
FBS, FBG, Fasting Blood Sugar
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