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Diabetes treatment
Diabetes prevention and treatment.
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noninvasive blood glucose monitoring
Health care; Diabetes treatment
A way to measure blood glucose without having to prick the finger to obtain a blood sample. Several noninvasive devices are currently being developed.
point system
Health care; Diabetes treatment
A way to plan meals that uses points to rate food. The foods are placed in four classes: calories, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Each food is given a point value within its class. A person with ...
amino acid
Health care; Diabetes treatment
A weak acid carbon compound containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. The nitrogenous amine group is characteristic of each. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein and there are ...
dysglycemia
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Abnormal blood sugar levels from any cause which results in disease. A condition resulting from a disorder of blood sugar metabolism. Usually the more specific terms hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, or ...
dysglycaemia
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Abnormal blood sugar levels from any cause which results in disease. A condition resulting from a disorder of blood sugar metabolism. Usually the more specific terms hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, or ...
anomalies
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Abnormalities, as in birth defects, or in peculiar results or developments. For instance, diabetes can develop in an anomalous, unusual, way.
macrosomia
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Abnormally large; in a diabetes context, it is the phenomenon of abnormally large babies that may be born to women with diabetes whose pregnancies are not closely monitored.
