News tagged with high blood sugar

Your chances of dying by 2023? Test offers a clue

Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble pushing a chair across the room.

Health created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Study: Most-used diabetes drug works in different way than previously thought

A team, led by senior author Morris J. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, the Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Medicine, with the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University ...

Diabetes created Jan 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study identifies mechanism that leads to diabetes, blindness

The rare disorder Wolfram syndrome is caused by mutations in a single gene, but its effects on the body are far reaching. The disease leads to diabetes, hearing and vision loss, nerve cell damage that causes ...

Medical research created Sep 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drug effective in treating kidney disease in diabetic patients

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Mayo Clinic have published promising results of a clinical study using an experimental anti-fibrotic ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Type 1 diabetes and heart disease linked by inflammatory protein

Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes appears to increase the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death among people with high blood sugar, partly by stimulating the production of calprotectin, a protein that sparks ...

Inflammatory disorders created May 07, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research suggests link between elevated blood sugar, Alzheimer's risk

(Medical Xpress)—A new University of Arizona study, published in the journal Neurology, suggests a possible link between elevated blood sugar levels and risk for developing Alzheimer's disease.

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Youth smoking, obesity may lead to early death

(HealthDay)—Young adults and teens who smoke, are obese and have high blood sugar levels may be more likely to die before they reach their 55th birthday, new government research suggests.

Pediatrics created Feb 18, 2013 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study finds a spoonful of cinnamon improves health

Sprinkling a spoonful of cinnamon on breakfast foods not only adds a burst of flavor but also dramatically lowers an individual's blood sugar levels, potentially reducing the chance of developing diabetes, says a new study ...

Health created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Scientists link excess sugar to cancer

Sugars are needed to provide us with energy and in moderate amounts contribute to our well-being. Sustained high levels of sugars, as is found in diabetics, damages our cells and now is shown that can also ...

Medical research created Feb 01, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Diabetic fruit flies support buzz about dietary sugar dangers

Regularly consuming sucrose—the type of sugar found in many sweetened beverages—increases a person's risk of heart disease. In a study published January 10 in the journal PLOS Genetics, researchers at San ...

Genetics created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clever gene construct combats metabolic syndrome

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers under ETH-Zurich professor Martin Fussenegger have created a new genetic network that could cure the various symptoms of so-called metabolic syndrome in one fell swoop. It already ...

Medical research created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

More than 3,000 epigenetic switches control daily liver cycles

(Medical Xpress)—When it's dark, and we start to fall asleep, most of us think we're tired because our bodies need rest. Yet circadian rhythms affect our bodies not just on a global scale, but at the level ...

Genetics created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

For women with gestational diabetes, study shows reduced risk of type 2 diabetes solely through dietary modification

(Medical Xpress)—By sticking to a healthy diet in the years after pregnancy, women who develop diabetes during pregnancy can greatly reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a study supported by the National Institutes ...

Health created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Future health risks for obese children may be greater than previously thought

Being obese as a child or adolescent may have a larger effect on future health than previously thought, suggests a study published in the British Medical Journal today.

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Cystic fibrosis disrupts pancreas two ways in CF-related diabetes

A new University of Iowa study suggests there are two root causes of a type of diabetes associated with cystic fibrosis (CF). The findings, which already have sparked a clinical trial, may guide development ...

Diabetes created Sep 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hyperglycemia

Hyperglycemia, hyperglycaemia, or high blood sugar is a condition in which an excessive amount of glucose circulates in the blood plasma. This is generally a blood glucose level of 10+ mmol/L (180 mg/dl), but symptoms may not start to become noticeable until later numbers like 15-20+ mmol/L (270-360 mg/dl)or 15.2-32.6 mmol/L. However, chronic levels exceeding 125 mg/dl can produce organ damage.

The origin of the term is Greek: hyper-, meaning excessive; -glyc-, meaning sweet; and -emia, meaning "of the blood".

For more information about Hyperglycemia, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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