Is there any use for the oral glucose tolerance test? [14]

Diabetes Care

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 714-715

  Vaccaro, Olga ^a,b   Ruffa, Gianluca ^a   Riccardi, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; LETTER; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST;

EID: 0034117813     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.23.5.714a     Document Type: Letter

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