How reliable is glucose tolerance test?

[Guest guest]

My mother has type II diabetes, my grandfather had it, and I'm at risk for it.

My current doctor at the community health clinic wants to do a glucose tolerance

test instead of the test for the rate of destruction over time of red blood

cells. He said the latter isn't a very good test, and that the glucose

tolerance test is the best test.

My understanding is that the exact opposite is true.

What is the current state of knowledge about this?

Yours,

Dora

Austin, Texas

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