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When Should You Get Tested For Diabetes? Cost, Do's And Don'ts, And More
It includes tests like Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test, Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), and HbA1c test. FPG test measures your blood glucose levels after fasting for 12 hours. OGTT tests are ...
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Report of the Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus
Reproducibility is another important property of a diagnostic test, a property for which the FPG appears to be preferable. When OGTTs were repeated in adults during a 2- to 6-week interval ...
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The Prevention or Delay of Type 2 Diabetes
No studies have examined the usefulness of the A1C test to predict future diabetes. Three studies have examined whether the FPG test or 2-h OGTT is a better predictor of future diabetes.