Diabetes terms starting with R

7 terms

1. Range of Severity The area or scope of a physical or mental condition or complication of a physical or mental condition occurring during another disease and aggravating it…
2. Rebound Hyperglycemia (Somogyi Effect) In diabetes a rebound phenomenon of reactive hyperglycemia in response to a proceeding period of relative hypoglycemia that has increased…
3. Renal Failure (REE-nul FAYL-yer) A condition in which the kidneys stop working and are not able to remove waste and extra water from the blood or keep body chemicals in…
4. Renal Threshold Concentration of plasma substance above which the substance appears in the urine.
5. Rest Pain An unpleasant sensation associated with actual or potential tissue damage, occurring usually in the extremities during body inactivity while sitting or…
6. retinopathy See diabetic eye disease.
7. risk factors Traits that make it more likely that a person will get an illness. For example, a risk factor for getting type 2 diabetes is having a family history of…