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  1. May 3, 2024 · The glucose tolerance test measures the body's response to sugar, also called glucose. Another name for this test is the oral glucose tolerance test. This test can be used to screen for type 2 diabetes or prediabetes before you have symptoms of either condition. Or it can help find out whether diabetes is causing existing symptoms.

  2. Apr 23, 2023 · A glucose tolerance test (GTT) is a procedure that determines whether a patient can use and store glucose normally. The test is usually used to test for diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, impaired pancreatic beta cell function, and sometimes reactive hypoglycemia or acromegaly, or rarer disorders of carbohydrate metabolism. [2]

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  4. Jul 5, 2023 · Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) develops in pregnant people whose pancreatic beta-cell function is insufficient to overcome the insulin resistance associated with the pregnant state.

  5. The glucose tolerance test (GTT, not to be confused with GGT test) is a medical test in which glucose is given and blood samples taken afterward to determine how quickly it is cleared from the blood.

  6. Jan 5, 2023 · Following its collapse in late 2021, GTT Communications has finally exited its Chapter 11 bankruptcy and restructuring processes, having removed $2.8bn from its debt pile and brought in new investors.

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  7. Feb 10, 2023 · The glucose tolerance test is a lab test to check how your body moves sugar from the blood into tissues like muscle and fat. The test is often used to diagnose diabetes. Tests to screen for diabetes during pregnancy are similar, but are done differently. How the Test is Performed.

  8. Case Background. On October 31, 2021, GTT Communications, Inc. and 9 affiliated debtors (collectively, the "Debtors") each filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.