Oral Glucose Tolerance Definition

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A laboratory test that determines the level of glucose in the blood following an overnight fast and before and two hours after drinking an oral glucose solution, used to measure the body's ability to metabolize glucose, especially as an indicator of diabetes or prediabetes.
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Oral Glucose Tolerance Sentence Examples

  • Reactive hypoglycaemia was ruled out in an oral glucose tolerance test.

  • The American Diabetes Association recommends that a random plasma glucose, fasting plasma glucose, or oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) be used for diagnosis of diabetes.

  • In difficult diagnostic cases, a glucose challenge test called a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test is recommended.

  • The oral glucose tolerance test is done to see how well the body handles a standard amount of glucose.

  • Exercise, diet, anorexia, and smoking affect the results of the oral glucose tolerance test.

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