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Diabetes treatment
Diabetes prevention and treatment.
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gangrene
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Infection of dead body tissue. It is most often caused by a loss of blood flow, especially in the legs and feet. Gangrene is particularly dangerous in that the infection cannot be reached by body ...
pancreatitis
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Inflammation and irritation of the pancreas. Can be caused by several conditions. Infection is one, duct blockage is another.
heredity
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Inheritance of various traits. One's heredity is the "sum" of one's genes, and their expression, passed on by one's parents. An additional, and poorly understood, source of inherited traits is ...
purified insulins
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Insulins with much less of the impure proinsulin. It is thought that the use of purified insulins may help avoid or reduce some of the problems of people with diabetes such as allergic reactions.
intensive insulinotherapy
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Intensive insulinotherapy is a therapeutic regimen for diabetes mellitus treatment. This newer approach contrasts with conventional insulinotherapy. Rather than minimize the number of insulin ...
coronary disease
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Interference with the heart's blood supply, typically by clogging of coronary, or other, arteries. Ischemia means lack of oxygen which necessarily follows from one or more blocked arteries.
