Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most common and life-long diseases marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. It’s severity may result in dreadful consequences. There are two important factors that cause this disease, too little insulin (a hormone produced by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar), resistance to insulin, or both. To […]
A diabetic patient’s misery doesn’t end with regulation of blood sugar level or diet control, in most of the cases it gives way to a number of post disease complications. These complications may be of different levels of severity depending upon patient’s sincerity towards precautionary measures.
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Today, almost 21 million children and adults in the US have diabetes — including 9.7 million women — and almost one third of them do not know it. Diabetes can be especially hard on women. The burden of diabetes on women is unique, because the disease can affect both mothers and their unborn children. Diabetes […]
Diabetes is a complicated disease. If you have it or even if you don’t, there’s a lot for you to learn, including separating fact from fiction. Take a look at some of these common myths about diabetes.
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What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal. People with diabetes have problems converting food to energy. After a meal, food is broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Cells use insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas, […]
This measures the actual levels of insulin in the bloodstream. High levels of insulin can indicate early stages of Type 2 diabetes and hyperinsulemia (excess insulin in the blood), where the body attempts to over-produce insulin to counteract the body’s growing resistance to insulin usage.
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Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a condition characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced. It denotes inability of the kidney to concentrate urine. DI is caused by a deficiency of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), also known as vasopressin,
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A glucose tolerance test in medical practice is the administration of glucose to determine how quickly it is cleared from the blood.
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HDL (high-density lipoprotein) cholesterol helps remove fat from the body by binding with it in the bloodstream and carrying it back to the liver for disposal.
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A urine concentration test measures the ability of the kidneys to conserve or excrete water appropriately.
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