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The glucose tolerance test was first described in 1923 by Jerome W. Conn. [4]The test was based on the previous work in 1913 by A. T. B. Jacobson in determining that carbohydrate ingestion results in blood glucose fluctuations, [5] and the premise (named the Staub-Traugott Phenomenon after its first observers H. Staub in 1921 and K. Traugott in 1922) that a normal patient fed glucose will ...
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A level below 5.6 mmol/L (100 mg/dL) 10–16 hours without eating is normal. 5.6–6 mmol/L (100–109 mg/dL) may indicate prediabetes and oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) should be offered to high-risk individuals (old people, those with high blood pressure etc.). 6.1–6.9 mmol/L (110–125 mg/dL) means OGTT should be offered even if other ...
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The results section of this page is a bit confusing (aren't the 75 gram and 2 hour OGTT the same test?) And it has incorrect information. According to the NIH [1], the fasting glucose levels are set as: 99 or below: normal; 100 - 125: prediabetes > 126: diabetes; The listed values in the results section show 110 as the cutoff.
Impairment of growth and susceptibility to certain infections can occur as a result of chronic hyperglycemia. [ 16 ] Acute hyperglycemia involving glucose levels that are extremely high is a medical emergency and can rapidly produce serious complications (such as fluid loss through osmotic diuresis ).
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