Who knows about GGT?

[VinnyJames]

The receptionist told me I was 76 on GGT reading.

Is there a chart anywhere that I can look at similar to the blood sugar readings chart to make sense of the numbers?

 

[sanguine]

It's supposed to be less than 60 according to my printouts. When diagnosed T2 in March mine was 217 with an ALT of 51. Last month when I had my blood tests ALT had dropped well into normal at 17 but GGT wasn't done. When I next see the DN I'll ask if this was because ALT was OK or if it was an oversight.

 

[VinnyJames]

When I was diagnosed last year I think mine was over 300 so it's a huge reduction. Still needs to come down a bit more I think.


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[Indy51]

I was trying to make sense of my own tests a while back and the two things I noted for future reference was that raised AST/ALT is associated with fatty liver (ideal on my printouts says between 10-35 AST 5-30 ALT) and GGT (ideal in range 5-35) can be an indicator of bile duct disease or cirrhosis.

I'm in Australia, so not sure if the ranges recommended on our tests are the same as yours.