#glucose tolerance test

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Know Everything About Oral Glucose Tolerance (Ogtt) Test at Livlong

Discover the complete details of the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) to diagnose diabetes. Visit Livlong for more information on OGTT test at Livlong

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Exploring the Intricacies of Type 4 Diabetes: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Greetings, esteemed readers, and welcome to this all-encompassing, highly detailed guide centered on the elucidation of Type 4 Diabetes, an intriguing and somewhat less ubiquitous entity compared to its better-known counterparts, Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. Our paramount objective within the confines of this article is to embark on a comprehensive exploration, traversing the labyrinthine…

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Diagnostic tests for diabetes  

Diagnostic tests for diabetes details about Fasting glucose level glucose tolerance test and Hemoglobin A1C test and their relevance. In order to diagnose if a person is pre diabetes, or a diabetic his blood sugar level is measured, along with various other diagnostic tests for diabetes Fasting blood sugar level diagnostic tests for diabetes. Blood glucose level is measured after overnight…

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Understanding Different Types of Diabetes and Their Impact on the Body

Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It disrupts the body's ability to regulate blood sugar (glucose) levels, leading to serious health complications if not managed properly. There are several types of diabetes, each with unique characteristics and impacts on the body. This article will explore the different types of diabetes, how they affect the body, and the tests provided by RML Pathology to diagnose and manage this condition.

1. Type 1 Diabetes

Description:

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. This results in little to no insulin production, which is essential for regulating blood sugar levels.

Impact on the Body:

Requires lifelong insulin therapy.

Increases the risk of complications such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a potentially life-threatening condition.

Long-term complications include cardiovascular disease, kidney damage (nephropathy), nerve damage (neuropathy), and vision problems (retinopathy).

Can cause frequent urination, excessive thirst, extreme hunger, weight loss, fatigue, and irritability.

2. Type 2 Diabetes

Description:

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. It occurs when the body becomes resistant to insulin or when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin. Lifestyle factors such as obesity, poor diet, and lack of exercise significantly contribute to its development.

Impact on the Body:

Often managed with lifestyle changes, oral medications, and sometimes insulin.

Can lead to complications like heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, eye problems, and nerve damage.

Symptoms include increased thirst, frequent urination, increased hunger, fatigue, blurred vision, slow-healing sores, and frequent infections.

3. Gestational Diabetes

Description:

Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy when the body cannot produce enough insulin to meet the increased needs. It usually resolves after childbirth but increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.

Impact on the Body:

Can cause high blood pressure during pregnancy (preeclampsia).

Increases the risk of having a large baby, leading to complications during delivery.

May result in low blood sugar levels in the newborn and a higher risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the child later in life.

4. Prediabetes

Description:

Prediabetes is a condition where blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as type 2 diabetes. It is a critical stage for intervention to prevent the progression to type 2 diabetes.

Impact on the Body:

Often reversible with lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise.

Increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

Symptoms are often absent or mild, making regular screening important.

Tests Provided by RML Pathology

RML Pathology offers a comprehensive range of tests to diagnose and manage diabetes effectively. These include:

Fasting Blood Glucose Test:

Measures blood sugar levels after fasting for at least 8 hours.

Helps diagnose diabetes and prediabetes.

HbA1c Test:

Provides an average blood sugar level over the past 2-3 months.

Used to diagnose diabetes and monitor long-term glucose control.

Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT):

Measures the body's response to a glucose solution.

Commonly used to diagnose gestational diabetes.

Random Blood Sugar Test:

Measures blood sugar levels at any time of the day.

Useful for diagnosing diabetes when symptoms are present.

Gestational Diabetes Test:

Specifically designed for pregnant women to detect gestational diabetes.

Conclusion

Understanding the different types of diabetes and their impact on the body is crucial for effective management and prevention. Regular testing and early detection play a vital role in managing diabetes and preventing complications. RML Pathology provides a wide range of diagnostic tests to help you monitor and manage your diabetes effectively. If you have any symptoms or risk factors for diabetes, consider visiting RML Pathology for a comprehensive evaluation.

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Early Pregnancy HbA1c: A Promising Tool for Gestational Diabetes Screening

Early Pregnancy HbA1c: A Promising Tool for Gestational Diabetes Screening @neosciencehub #healthcare #gestationaldiabetes #sciencenews #Hba1c #neoscience #OralGlucoseToleranceTest(OGTT)

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a condition that develops during pregnancy, characterized by impaired glucose tolerance. This condition can lead to significant health risks for both the mother and the foetus, including increased risk of preeclampsia, caesarean delivery, and adverse birth outcomes. Early detection and management of GDM are crucial to mitigate these risks. Traditional…

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A Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT) is a medical procedure used to assess how well your body processes glucose. It is commonly used to diagnose diabetes, gestational diabetes, and other disorders of glucose metabolism. The procedure involves fasting overnight, followed by a blood draw to measure your fasting blood glucose level. You will then consume a sugary solution, and additional blood samples will be taken at regular intervals to monitor how your blood glucose levels change over time. This test helps healthcare providers determine how efficiently your body metabolizes sugar.

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Muktotsav: A Celebration of Freedom

Muktotsav comes from the conjoining of Mukti, meaning freedom, and Utsav, meaning festival or celebration. And this is exactly what it is. Muktotsav is FFD’s annual event when our champions step into the well-deserved limelight. This is when they are felicitated and awarded for their achievements.

Read the full blog here: https://www.freedomfromdiabetes.org/blog/post/muktotsav-a-celebration-of-freedom-Freedom-from-diabetes/2637

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Glucose Tolerance Test Market Analysis, Size, Share, and Forecast 2031

[fatliberation]

I saw a comment on your blog that says 'the way you eat does not cause diabetes'...are you able to expand on that or provide a source I could read? I've been told by doctors that my pre-diabetes was due to weight gain because I get more hungry on my anti psychotics and I'd like to fact check what they've told me! Thank you so much!

Pre-diabetes was rejected as a diagnosis by the World Health Organization (although it is used by the US and UK) - the correct term for the condition is impaired glucose tolerance. Approximately 2% of people with "pre-diabetes" go on to develop diabetes per year. You heard that right - TWO PERCENT. Most diabetics actually skip the pre-diabetic phase.

There are currently no treatments for pre-diabetes besides intentional weight loss. (Hmm, that's convenient, right?) There has yet to be evidence that losing weight prevents progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM beyond a year. Interestingly, drug companies are trying to persuade the medical world to start treating patients earlier and earlier. They are using the term “pre-diabetes” to sell their drugs (including Wegovy, a weight-loss drug). Surgeons are using it to sell weight loss surgery. Everyone’s a winner, right? Not patients. Especially fat patients.

Check out these articles:

Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn’t be

The war on ‘prediabetes' could be a boon for pharma—but is it good medicine?

Also - I love what Dr. Asher Larmie @fatdoctorUK has to say about T2DM and insulin resistance, so here's one of their threads I pulled from Twitter:

1️⃣ You can't prevent insulin resistance. It's coded in your DNA. It may be impacted by your environment. Studies have shown it has nothing to do with your BMI.

2️⃣ The term "pre-diabetes" is a PR stunt. The correct term is impaired glucose tolerance (or impaired fasting glucose) which is sometimes referred to as intermittent hyperglycemia. It does not predict T2DM. It is best ignored and tested for every 3-5yrs.

3️⃣ there is no evidence that losing weight prevents diabetes. That's because you can't reverse insulin resistance. You can possibly postpone it by 2yrs? Furthermore there is evidence that those who are fat at the time of diagnosis fair much better than those who are thin.

4️⃣ Weight loss does not reverse diabetes in the VAST majority of people. Those that do reverse it are usually thinner with recent onset T2DM and a low A1c. Only a tiny minority can sustain that over 2yrs. Weight loss does not improve A1c levels beyond 2 yrs either.

5️⃣ Weight loss in T2DM does not improve macrovascular or microvascular health outcomes beyond 2 years. In fact, weight loss in diabetics is associated with increased mortality and morbidity (although it is not clear why). Weight cycling is known to impacts A1c levels.

6️⃣ Weight GAIN does NOT increase the risk of cardiovascular OR all causes mortality in diabetics. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that it's better to be fat and diabetic than to be thin and diabetic.

Dr. Larmie cites 18 peer reviewed journal articles (most from the last decade) that are included in their webinar on the subject, linked below.

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This infographic explains the different types of blood sugar tests used to diagnose and manage diabetes and other conditions. Learn more about fasting blood sugar tests, random blood sugar tests, and oral glucose tolerance tests, and their respective uses. The Physicians Clinic is a leading healthcare provider that offers blood sugar testing and other medical services to patients.

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scared that I might have diabetes 🫠

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Everything You Need to Know About Diabetes Tests - A Journey of Uncertainty and Surprises!

Prepare yourself for a roller-coaster ride through the perplexing world of diabetes tests! Embark on this whirlwind tour of different tests, diabetes types, interpreting results, and managing the enigmatic condition. Gain insights to take control of your health in this exhilarating adventure! Introduction to Diabetes Tests – The Enigmatic Puzzle Unveiled! Diabetes, a mysterious metabolic…

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I've been trying to figure out what the deal is with prediabetes so I can write a meaningful response to an ask I got about it, and I just keep going wait--okay--here's one paper--but here's another one--here's a Cochrane review--but here's a different meta-analysis--and here's newer data from an RCT...

It's nuts! It's bananas. And anybody who says we have good, crisp, clear guidelines around what prediabetes even IS, much less what to do about it, is FULL OF SHIT.

What I really need to know in order to feel more confident about my handle on whether to medicate pre-diabetes is the population incidence. Not prevalence. Because if I take the most optimistic studies about medication as an intervention, specifically, I could be looking at about a 30-40% reduction in risk of progression to diabetes. But! How many people is that, actually? Because medication is not without its harms! We need to compare number needed to treat with number needed to harm, we need to have high-quality evidence that says yes, if we give this medication to everyone who meets X level of criteria for pre-diabetes (it's different in different sources AND it's changed repeatedly over our lifetime!), we will see a level of benefit sufficient to justify making these other people who would not have progressed to diabetes without it endure the hassle and side effects of taking a medication for the rest of their lives.

AND HERE'S THE REAL FUN PART: we don't really know where tissue damage begins! We thought we did! 6.5-7ish A1c. But it turns out there is a marked risk of retinopathy beginning at 5.5! Which is considered normal. AND ALSO we should probably be thinking of it as at least three separate disease based on our current ability to measure--A1c is a broad marker that collapses multiple forms of dysregulated blood sugar, and when we use more fine-grained tests, we see meaningful distinctions that probably affect preferred treatments between people who have impaired fasting glucose, people who have abnormal values on an oral glucose tolerance test, and people who have both. We should treat these groups differently because they reflect different underlying pathways: elevated fasting glucose means your liver is breaking down too much glycogen while you sleep, which is one issue, while elevated post-prandial glucose means your skeletal muscles (OR SOMETHING ELSE they're not totally sure) are behaving abnormally in response to insulin. IT'S NOT THE SAME THING and people with both impaired fasting glucose and abnormal post-prandial glucose are at higher risk of progression to diabetes/tissue damage than people with just one of those. AND WHILE WE'RE AT IT, what is diabetes? What's the best cutoff? What's the best measure? How many underlying pathophysiologies are getting collapsed into the same group????

THE MORE I LEARN ABOUT THIS THE MORE QUESTIONS I HAVE and experts are all being serenely confident while contradicting each other so I have to actually dig in the data a lot harder than I usually do. I've been meaning to do this for months, but one of the presenters this morning made a comment about the benefits of putting prediabetics on metformin that made me go "hm, do I need to start doing that?" and I've gone from my kneejerk answer being "no, we studied this and it doesn't help" to "I don't fucking know and neither does anyone else."

...as always, Cochrane is probably right.

[thunderheadfred]

I’m so exhausted with this, whatever it is. Is this normal? Is it just me? Is it because I had Covid before? Is it just because I’m weak and pathetic?

It’s really getting to me; I can’t pretend otherwise. I can barely do anything. My head aches constantly and I feel woozy. I’m weak, wobbly, have no energy. There hasn’t been a good day in weeks.

Last few days I just want to cry all the time; there’s no relief. Worst of all, I feel guilty for feeling this way, like it’s all my fault and I’m doing something wrong. All I can do is sleep, or sit up in bed like a woman in a Victorian novel, pleading for liquids. I don’t know how to feel or what to do. I felt shaky all last night, like there were bees and wind inside me.

Doctor on Thursday morning. Glucose tolerance test, anatomy scan, checkup. Partner will be there to advocate for me; I’m too tired to even know what to say anymore.

[girldraki]

possibilities are (1) we are just so comically greedy we have bumbled our way into developing a physical dependence on sugar (???) (2) two years of olanzapine are fucking with our glucose tolerance in a way that is not quite prediabetes (per our most recent blood test) but somewhat alarmingly adjacent given our dads side has a history. neither of these are good

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Glucose Tolerance Test Market Analysis, Size, Share, and Forecast 2031