glucose tolerance test

American  

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. a diagnostic procedure in which a measured amount of glucose is ingested and blood samples are taken periodically as a means of detecting diabetes mellitus.

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Etymology

Origin of glucose tolerance test

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

This is similar to the glucose tolerance test used to diagnose diabetes and is commonly given to pregnant women to screen for gestational diabetes.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2024

The study's patients were selected on the basis of a glucose tolerance test, now rarely used, whose results are inconsistent with those of today's more common A1c.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 7, 2019

The four-day "normal" sleep period was followed by a glucose tolerance test to see the young men's usual diabetes risk.

From US News • Jan. 18, 2016

They might give a frail person, or someone at risk, a glucose tolerance test, to be sure that or prediabetes would be detected.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2012

Hypoglycemia is a normal response to the glucose tolerance test.

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