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Diabetes - A support group of health-care professionals who helps persons manage diabetes. This team may include an endocrinologist, physician, registered dietitian, and certified diabetes educator (a certified diabetes educator can be a physician, registered nurse, or registered dietitian). Ophthalmologist, podiatrists, nephrologist, neurologist, cardiologist or other specialist can also be part of the team.
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Diabetes - The most common form of treatment for end stage renal failure. Surgery is required to join one artery to a vein to form a larger vein called a fistula or loop (vein carries blood to the heart; an artery carries blood from the heart), or a straight piece of graft material tubing is implanted. An artificial kidney is used to remove waste from the blood at a person's home, outpatient clinic, or hospital. Dialysis is usually done three times a week, for three to five hours each session. All sessions are normally the same at either location.
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Diabetes - A condition that occurs in people with diabetes when their blood glucose levels are too high. Symptoms include having to urinate often, being very thirsty, and losing weight.
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Diabetes - A condition where the blood circulates through the arteries with too much force. High blood pressure tires the heart, harms the arteries, and increases the risk of heart attack, stroke, and kidney problems.
CDC - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Angina, Atherosclerosis, Blood pressure, Claudication, EKG, Heart attack, Labored Breathing, Peripheral Artery Disease, Stroke
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Diabetes - Lack of or reluctance to use proper diabetes education techniques by person with diabetes or other individual assisting in self-management and treatment involving a balanced diet and exercise, adequate blood glucose monitoring, oral diabetes medicine, or insulin injections that result in emergency measures or violating a precise and detailed therapy for management plan or the study of a biomedical problem.
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Diabetes - Slow onset of severe elevation in blood glucose levels causing acute complications including stupor, lethargy, blurred vision, disorientation, slow responses, weakness, diabetic ketoacidosis (diabetic coma) and nonketotic hyperosmolar coma.
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Diabetes - An endocrine condition due to an increase in the secretion of the parathyroid gland that regulates the proper functioning of the skeletal, digestive, renal, and nervous systems. Symptoms and signs may include lethargy, constipation, nausea, vomiting, polyuria. In extreme cases, bone pain (Recklinghausen's disease of the bone), renal stones, renal failure, and coma.
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Diabetes - See high blood pressure.
CDC - Cite This Source - This Definition - Diabetes and hypertension are powerful risk factors for cardiovascular disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, renal failure. Five percent (5%) of high blood pressure cases are caused by glandular or hormonal abnormalities. The other 95 percent (95%) are caused by essential hypertension from diet, body size, stress, and heredity. Hypertension alone is not likely to cause sudden collapse. However, complications from sustained hypertension can cause headaches, dizziness, fatigue, and spontaneous nosebleeds, and if untreated heart attack or stroke. A systolic/diastolic blood pressure of even 140/90 is probably too high in diabetes, because renal damage starts when blood is in the high normal range.
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Diabetes - The lack of ability to recognize warning signs (symptoms) of the sympathetic nervous system (adrenergic) involving weakness, nervousness, sweating, cold sweats, increased heart rate, and irritability. Adrenergic symptoms may not occur in some persons with diabetes such as: (1) Who have nerve damage and do not release adrenaline (autonomic neuropathy). (2) Have a long duration of diabetes. (3) Have tightly controlled blood glucose levels. (4) Are taking medications for heart disease or hypertension that block the release of adrenaline and are at risk for having severe hypoglycemic reactions. If adrenergic symptoms do not appear or are ignored, the thought process and motor coordination become noticeably difficult from the lack of glucose to the brain.
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