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Diabetes treatment
Diabetes prevention and treatment.
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polyphagia
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Great hunger; a sign of diabetes. People with this great hunger often lose weight.
islets of langerhans
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Groups of cells in the pancreas. Some of them make and secrete hormones that help the body break down and use food. They were noticed by Paul Langerhans, a German medical student, in 1869; these ...
endogenous
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Grown or made inside the body. Insulin made by a person's own pancreas is endogenous insulin. Insulin that is supplied from outside the body (i.e., injected or otherwise supplied) is exogenous.
exogenous
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Grown or made outside the body; for instance, insulin made from pork or beef pancreas is exogenous insulin for people. Contrast endogenous.
acute
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Happens for a limited period of time; abrupt onset; sharp, severe.
arteriosclerosis
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Hardening of the blood vessels. It causes inflexibility of the arterial walls, so they are not flexible as in a healthy condition. In addition, it also usually involves atherosclerosis, i.e. deposits ...
complications of diabetes
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Harmful effects that may happen when a person has diabetes. Some acute effects, such as hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia, can happen any time and usually can be resolved quickly. Others develop when a ...
