Impaired Glucose Tolerance - the OGTT criteria didn't change, to the best of my knowledge.
However, the fasting glucose indicates diabetes - so if you have several fasting glucoses at this level he is diabetic.
TIM
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Subject: OGTT interpretation
How would list members interprete the following OGTT
on a 62-year-old man using the 1998 revised WHO
criteria:
0 min 7.2 mmol/L
60 min 12.6 mmol/L
120 min 9.5 mmol/L
Thanks.
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Dr. M A Al-Jubouri
Consultant Chemical Pathologist
Whiston Hospital
Prescot
Merseyside L35 5DR
UK
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