Standardization of the Oral Glucose-Tolerance Test

Editorial Notes1 November 1969Standardization of the Oral Glucose-Tolerance TestCLIFFORD F. GASTINEAU, M. D. CLIFFORD F. GASTINEAU, M. D. Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps: //doi. org/10. 7326/0003-4819-71-5-1023 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe committee on Statistics of the American Diabetes Association has recently recommended a procedure for conducting oral glucose-tolerance tests (Diabetes 18: 299, 1969). In surveys of prevalence of this disorder the manner of testing for diabetes has varied considerably. Glucose-tolerance tests with different loading doses, times of collection of specimens and different means of collecting, preserving, and analyzing specimens have been used, and the results have been varied. Furthermore, arbitrary criteria for diagnosis of diabetes have sometimes been adopted and the results published simply as positive or negative rather than giving the actual figures observed. Standardization of the procedure is. . . References1. An error in calculation of the method for making the glucose solution as published has been corrected in reprints and in an erratum in Diabetes 18: 454, 1969. Google Scholar2. COOPERMCDANIELS RGV: Workshop Manual on Methods for Determination of Glucose, American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1966. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Section of Internal Medicine Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation Rochester, Minn. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited bySTANDARDIZATION AND EVALUATION OF THE ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST 1 November 1969Volume 71, Issue 5Part₁Page: 1023-1024 ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 November 1969 PDF downloadLoading. . .