Re: Newbie Here

Janet wrote:
cshenk wrote:
"Susan" wrote
Janet wrote:

Only if you "fail" the screening test. Everyone does not have one.

In the U.S., typically they do.

Really? Humm, I must be in the wrong part of the US then.

Me too.

Upon considering this further, I think that this might be a matter of
terminology. The standard screen is a simplified glucose tolerance test that
takes only one sample. If your results are high enough, you "fail" the
screen and go on to a full-blown GTT where you go in fasting, drink a whole
bottle of the disgusting glucose glop, and have multiple samples taken over
a period of several hours. I seem to recall that it might include at least
one urine sample, also.

The latter is what I think of when people refer to GTTs.



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