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Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

Glucose Challenge Test, Glucose Tolerance Test, OGTT (Oral Glucose Tolerance Test)

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The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) measures the body's ability to use a type of sugar, called glucose, that is the body's main source of energy. An OGTT can be used to diagnose prediabetes and diabetes. An OGTT is most commonly done to check for diabetes that occurs with pregnancy (gestational diabetes).

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By: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review: E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Alan C. Dalkin, MD - Endocrinology
Last Revised: July 5, 2011

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