The three hour test you need to fast for 12-14 hours prior because that test is fasting the lab needs a base fasting glucose to compare the rest of the blood after you drink the glucola. With that test you should still have nothing in between the blood draws, even though the taste is very bad.
Because valvular heart disease can cause the heart to work harder, enlarge, and ultimately lead to congestive heart failure, symptoms like shortness of breath, fatigue, fainting, chest pain, and ankle swelling may appear as the disease progresses.
Symptoms.âDilatation being associated with those of hypertrophy, valvular lesions, and other cardiac complications, naturally shares the symptoms of the various combinations, feebleness, and incompleteness being the most pronounced. In proportion to the amount of dilatation do we recognize the heart's waning powder.