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What are oral glucose test alternatives for gestational diabetes?

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Not sure: What you're asking. The limited GTT is the gold standard for detecting gestational diabetes. Elevated blood sugars through other testing are also potentially useful, but some sort of testing is essential.

Answered 6/10/2014

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I am currently 36 weeks pregnant, afi 22 cm, baby 6 lbs 15 oz at 33weeks, passed 3 hour glucose test, barely failed one hour, gestational diabetes or.?

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Hi,i am pregnant 30 weeks,and last Friday I have glucose test and I ate egg with bread before test the result is 152, yesterday I repeat this test and the 4 hours result is range 85-133-172-154 doctor say I have pregnancy diabetes if it's really diabet

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