This compression causes numbness and/or tingling pain in your elbow, hand, wrist, or. fingers. This is commonly caused by leaning on your elbow for long periods of time or swelling caused by friction of. your ulnar nerve rubbing along structures of the cubital tunnel.
1 A fasting blood sugar level less than 100 mg/dL (5.6 mmol/L) is normal. 2  A fasting blood sugar level from 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L) is considered prediabetes. 3  If it's 126 mg/dL (7 mmol/L) or higher on two separate tests, you have diabetes. 4  Oral glucose tolerance test.
Medical Definition of Glucose tolerance test. Glucose tolerance test: A test of carbohydrate metabolism that is used primarily in the diagnosis of type II diabetes and gestational diabetes. Abbreviated GTT. After the patient has fasted overnight, but before breakfast, a specific amount of glucose is given by mouth, and the blood levels of this sugar are measured every 30'60 minutes.