What is Impaired glucose tolerance?

What is Impaired glucose tolerance?

• Impaired glucose tolerance: Mild glucose metabolism problems not severe enough to be called diabetes.

Impaired glucose tolerance: Introduction

Types of Impaired glucose tolerance:

Types of Impaired glucose tolerance:

• Impaired Fasting Glucose
• Gestational Impaired Glucose Tolerance - like IGT, but GIGT is caused by pregnancy, and is thus probably a mild form of gestational diabetes; see the discussion of gestational diabetes.
• more types...»

Broader types of Impaired glucose tolerance:

• Diabetes
• Pancreas conditions
• more types...»

How many people get Impaired glucose tolerance?

Prevalance of Impaired glucose tolerance: estimated 41 million people aged 40-74 have pre-diabetes in the US 1988-94 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
Prevalance Rate of Impaired glucose tolerance: approx 1 in 6 or 15.07% or 41 million people in USA [about data]

How serious is Impaired glucose tolerance?

Complications of Impaired glucose tolerance: see complications of Impaired glucose tolerance

What causes Impaired glucose tolerance?

Causes of Impaired glucose tolerance: see causes of Impaired glucose tolerance
Risk factors for Impaired glucose tolerance: see risk factors for Impaired glucose tolerance

What are the symptoms of Impaired glucose tolerance?

Symptoms of Impaired glucose tolerance: see symptoms of Impaired glucose tolerance

Complications of Impaired glucose tolerance: see complications of Impaired glucose tolerance

Impaired glucose tolerance: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Impaired glucose tolerance.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Impaired glucose tolerance.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Impaired glucose tolerance: see treatments for Impaired glucose tolerance
Research for Impaired glucose tolerance: see research for Impaired glucose tolerance

Organs Affected by Impaired glucose tolerance:

Organs and body systems related to Impaired glucose tolerance include:

• Pancreas
• Metabolism

Name and Aliases of Impaired glucose tolerance

Main name of condition: Impaired glucose tolerance

IGT, pre-diabetes

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Impaired glucose tolerance:

• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Syndrome X
• Oral hypoglycaemic agents
• Diabetic coma
• Hypoglycaemia
• Diabetic ulcer
• Diabetic foot
• Oral thrush

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