HGPO · HGPO
Oral glucose tolerance test
How the body handles sugar two hours after a sweet drink.
- Sample
- Blood draw
- Tube
- Fluoride tube (grey cap) · fluorure de sodium / oxalate · 1.5 mL
- Usual turnaround
- 4 h
- Price
- 1 200 DA Indicative prices, in dinars; the final amount is on your invoice.
- Nomenclature code
- B-002
How to prepare
- Fasting for 12 hours: nothing to eat or drink except water.
- Allow 2 h on site.
- Allow two to three hours on site, without smoking or walking about.
What can influence it
Fasting, a recent meal, some medicines, an acute illness.
Questions to ask your doctor
What does this result mean for me? Should it be repeated, and when? Should anything change in my treatment?
Your doctor will interpret the result with your history.