A person with diabetes may need to have a urine test if they notice blood in their urine, or to check for high blood sugar, diabetic ketoacidosis, or a urinary tract infection. A urine test is ...

The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) or glucose tolerance test (GTT) can check for prediabetes or diabetes. A person drinks a liquid containing glucose. The doctor then checks their blood to see how ...

IT is routine for most clinicians to instruct patients to take a high-carbohydrate diet for three days before a glucose tolerance test. Even with careful dietary instructions many patients find the ...

It is difficult to recall a time when doctors and patients had trouble tracking the presence of glucose and other substances in urine and blood. Lack of sufficient measurement tools made it difficult ...