Gestational Glucose Tolerance Screening and Diagnostic Test (Two-hour, ADA Recommendations)

Test Number 101000

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CPT 82951

Synonyms

Glucose Tolerance Test, Gestational (Fasting, One-hour, and Two-hour)

Test Details

Methodology

Enzymatic

Result Turnaround Time

Within1 day

Turnaround time is defined as the usual number of days from the date of pickup of a specimen for testing to when the result is released to the ordering provider. In some cases, additional time should be allowed for additional confirmatory or additional reflex tests. Testing schedules may vary.

Related Information

Glucose Tolerance: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

Use

Screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes

Footnotes

1. Labcorp internal studies.

2. American Diabetes Association. Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2015: Summary of revisions. Diabetes Care. 2015 Jan;38(Suppl 1):S4. PubMed 25537706

3. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Committee on Practice Bulletins—Obstetrics. Practice Bulletin No. 137: Gestational diabetes mellitus. Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Aug;122(2 Pt 1):406-416. PubMed 23969827

Custom Additional Information

American Diabetes Association Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes recommendations:²

• Screen for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes at the first prenatal visit in those with risk factors using the standard nongestational diagnostic criteria.

• In pregnant women not known to have diabetes, screen for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) at 24 to 28 weeks of gestation using the Gestational Glucose Tolerance Screening and Diagnostic Test (Two-hour, ADA Recommendations).

• Screen women with GDM for persistent diabetes 6 to 12 weeks postpartum using nonpregnant OGTT criteria, hemoglobin A_1c (102525), fasting plasma glucose (001818), or a 75-gram, two-hour oral glucose tolerance test (101200), two specimen WHO glucose tolerance test).² Women diagnosed with GDM should, in subsequent pregnancies, be re-evaluated.

• Women with a history of GDM should have lifelong screening for the development of diabetes or prediabetes at least every three years.

Note: The American Diabetes Association (ADA) released recommendations that vary from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) recommendations. The ADA recommends the current (101000) simplified “one-step” for screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus using a 75-gram, two-hour glucose tolerance test. The ACOG recommendations³ use a 100-gram, three-hour glucose tolerance test (102004).

Specimen Requirements

Specimen

Serum or plasma

Volume

1 mL serum or plasma each tube

Minimum Volume

0.5 mL serum or plasma each tube

Container

Gel-barrier tubes (3) or gray-top (sodium fluoride/potassium oxalate plasma) tubes (3)

Collection Instructions

Draw a fasting blood sample before administering glucose. Administer a 75-gram glucose and draw blood after one hour and two hours. The patient should remain seated throughout the test. Submit 1 mL serum or plasma for fasting, one-hour, and two-hour specimens. Separate serum or plasma from cells within 45 minutes of venipuncture. Gray-top tubes only, may be submitted without centrifugation. Label each tube with the patient's name and collection time interval (i.e,, fasting, one-hour, and two-hour).

Stability Requirements

Temperature	Period
Room temperature	14 days
Refrigerated	14 days
Frozen	14 days
Freeze/thaw cycles	Stable x3

Reference Range

See table.

Specimen (Two-hour GGT Test)*	Range (mg/dL)
*A positive diagnosis requires that only one of the high thresholds be exceeded.
Fasting	70−91
One-hour	70−179
Two-hour	70−152

Storage Instructions

Maintain specimen at room temperature.¹

Patient Preparation

Patient should be active and eat a regular diet that includes at least 150 grams of carbohydrate daily for three days prior to the test. The patient should be instructed not to eat or drink anything except water for at least eight hours and not more than 14 hours before the test. Patients should also be advised to discontinue, whenever possible, all nonessential medication that can affect glucose metabolism at least three days before testing.

Causes for Rejection

Frozen gray-top tube (frozen plasma from gray-top is acceptable); stressed patient (surgery, infection, corticosteroids) should not have GTT; specimens not labeled with collection time intervals (i.e., fasting, one-hour, and two-hour)

LOINC® Map

Order Code	Order Code Name	Order Loinc	Result Code	Result Code Name	UofM	Result LOINC
101000	Gestational 2 hour GTT	93794-6	011121	Glucose, Fasting	mg/dL	1558-6
101000	Gestational 2 hour GTT	93794-6	011122	Glucose, 1 hour	mg/dL	1507-3
101000	Gestational 2 hour GTT	93794-6	011123	Glucose, 2 hour	mg/dL	1518-0
101000	Gestational 2 hour GTT	93794-6	103033	Glucose (3)		N/A
Order Code	101000
Order Code Name	Gestational 2 hour GTT
Order Loinc	93794-6
Result Code	011121
Result Code Name	Glucose, Fasting
UofM	mg/dL
Result LOINC	1558-6
Order Code	101000
Order Code Name	Gestational 2 hour GTT
Order Loinc	93794-6
Result Code	011122
Result Code Name	Glucose, 1 hour
UofM	mg/dL
Result LOINC	1507-3
Order Code	101000
Order Code Name	Gestational 2 hour GTT
Order Loinc	93794-6
Result Code	011123
Result Code Name	Glucose, 2 hour
UofM	mg/dL
Result LOINC	1518-0
Order Code	101000
Order Code Name	Gestational 2 hour GTT
Order Loinc	93794-6
Result Code	103033
Result Code Name	Glucose (3)
UofM
Result LOINC	N/A

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