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Diabetes treatment
Diabetes prevention and treatment.
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Diabetes treatment
islet cell transplantation
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Moving the beta (islet) cells from a donor pancreas and putting them into a person whose pancreas has stopped producing insulin. The beta cells make the insulin that most cells in the human body ...
peripheral neuropathy
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Nerve damage, usually affecting the feet and legs; causing pain, numbness, or a tingling feeling.
somatic neuropathy
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Nerve damage, usually affecting the feet and legs; causing pain, numbness, or a tingling feeling.
distal sensory polyneuropathy
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Nerve damage, usually affecting the feet and legs; causing pain, numbness, or a tingling feeling.
neuropathy
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Nerve damage. In a diabetic context, a chronic complication of diabetes. Damage usually appears in the longest nerves, for reasons we only dimly understand, resulting in loss of sensation to the feet ...
glomeruli
Health care; Diabetes treatment
Network of tiny blood vessels in the kidneys where the blood is filtered and waste products are removed.
asymptomatic
Health care; Diabetes treatment
No symptoms; no clear sign of disease present. Most Type II diabetics are without clinically obvious symptoms for some time (often years) before they are diagnosed as diabetic.
