Articles, tagged with "diabetes mellitus type", page 4
11th March 2009
A patient recently came into my office for a consultation. She was in her early 50s, overweight, and was struggling with constant tiredness and a sense of being overwhelmed. She had tried multiple diets, with little to no success, and when she succeeded...
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Author:
Stan Gardner, M.D.
31st October 2008
Weight loss, in the context of medicine or health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body weight, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bones mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective ti...
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Author:
yangguang02
13th October 2008
What is diabetes?
There are two types of diabetes.Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, and more than 85 - 90 % diabetics in the US fall in this category. Type 2 diabetes is associated with insulin resistance and obesity and is fast beco...
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Author:
Celly Dunk
08th September 2008
Where people are diagnosed with diabetes, the first thing that comes to mind is the severe restrictions they face in their food. They May to waive most of the things they love to eat. This becomes a very forbidding. However, what is a false assumption tha...
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Author:
Jack Stanley
04th September 2008
Let 's start by considering the two types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetics make little or no insulin. Type 2 is usually found in people over 45 who have diabetes in their family who are overweight, who do not, and who have problems with cholesterol. It is al...
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Author:
Jack Stanley
04th September 2008
Diabetes is a disease caused by a failure of the biological mechanisms regulating blood sugar, because of inadequate production of insulin (hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food energy) by the pancreas. The disease is characteri...
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Author:
Jack Stanley
12th August 2008
Weight loss can prove to be a double edged sword with health benefits weighing against drastic changes in the life style, affecting the personality of the individual. Obesity, the disease in which the excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that...
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Author:
Thomas L. Dubose
29th July 2008
Also called: Insulin resistance syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome X. Not all doctors agree on the definition or cause of metabolic syndrome. The cause might be insulin resistance. Insulin is a hormone your body produces to help you turn sugar from food into en...
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Author:
Rick Hutch
27th June 2008
Diabetes is a disease caused by a failure of the biological mechanisms for regulating blood sugar, due to insufficient of the production of insulin (hormone that is needed to convert sugar, starches and other food into energy) by the pancreas. The disease...
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Author:
Raphaelo
20th May 2008
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a set of related diseases in which the body cannot regulate the amount of sugar (specifically, glucose) in the blood.
Glucose in the blood gives you energy to perform daily activities, walk briskly, run for a bus, ride your b...
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Author:
Peter rodrick
20th May 2008
DIABETES:
INTRODUCTION:
Diabetes is a disease that affects your body's ability to produce or use insulin. Insulin is a hormone. When your body turns the food you eat into energy (also called sugar or glucose), insulin is released to help transport this ...
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Author:
iliyaspatel
01st May 2008
The term diabetes comes from the Greek language, and was coined by Aretaeus of Cappadocia. It meant "a compass, siphon." The sense "siphon" gave rise to the use of diabetes as the name for a disease involving the emancipation of excessive amounts of urine...
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Author:
Perry Smith
02nd April 2008
Graves disease is an autoimmune disorder that involves overactivity of the thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism). It occurs when your immune system mistakenly attacks your thyroid gland and causes it to overproduce the hormone thyroxine. he other causes of thyr...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
23rd August 2007
Diabetes is not contagious. Diabetes is a disease in which the body does not produce or properly use insulin. Diabetes means a disease where people have too much sugar in their blood. Diabetes mellitus is a disease where people have too much glucose (a ki...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
25th July 2007
Read this Article to know about Symptoms of Type 1, Type 2 and Gestational diabetes.
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a disorder in the body's capability to convert glucose to energy. It is caused due to inadequate production of glucose by the pancrea...
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Author:
Tom alter