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Oral Glucose Tolerance Test

There are a subset of people with pre-diabetes that can only be identified through a very inconvenient and time-consuming test. This is called the oral glucose tolerance test, which essentially involves giving people a sugar drink and then two hours afterward, measuring their blood glucose levels. The new test would only require a one of blood sample to measure in their three proteins that would enable to predict the outcome of this oral glucoseolerance test.

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