The key to controlling diabetes for all of these types is blood testing. This means using a blood glucose meter to check how much sugar is in your blood. Testing every day before breakfast is the basic strategy, but tests after meals are also important to see if your blood sugar is too ...
Diabetes (Care and treatmentHealth education (ServicesMedical personnel (PracticeIn this paper, we design and develop a new software tool that helps automatic lithofacies segmentation from geological data. Lithofacies is a crucial problem in reservoir characterization, and our study intends to prove that...
Given the multiple organ systems playing roles in glucose production and utilization, with the gut, islets, liver, kidney, fat, muscle, and brain of particular importance, it is not surprising that the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is complex, but it is fascinating to review actual ...
Activation of inflammatory mediators in pancreatic β-cells in type 1 diabetes. Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), IL-1β, and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) are the most likely cytokines acting in synergy during inflammation of pancreatic β-cells, leading to the activation of a final common pathwa...
factors for diabetes, or if you have high levels of blood sugar in your urine. Your blood sugar (also called blood glucose) levels may be high if your pancreas is producing little or no insulin (type 1 diabetes), or if the body is not responding normally to insulin (type 2 diabetes)....
This Practice Point commentary discusses the findings of a multicenter clinical trial conducted by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Continuous Glucose Monitoring Study Group. In the study, 322 individuals aged ≥8 years who were already receiving intensive insulin therapy for type 1 diabetes mell...
Perspectives of patients with type 1 or insulin-treated type 2 diabetes on self-monitoring of blood glucose: a qualitative study p pBackground/p pSelf-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG), including self-regulation, is an important tool to achieve good glycemic control. However, many p... J ...
How is Alzheimer’s disease treated? Drugs are the cornerstone of treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The current medications cannot stop or cure Alzheimer's but may slow the progression of the disease and improve symptoms. Some drugs (like cholinesterase inhibitors) work by improving communication ...
The discovery of these necessary rules is largely an empirical matter that involves universal human needs, cultural norms, and giving others a voice in how they are treated. If one does not make an exception to these rules, one's behavior is respectful toward all others. 展开 ...
This Practice Point commentary discusses the findings of a multicenter clinical trial conducted by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Continuous Glucose Monitoring Study Group. In the study, 322 individuals aged ≥8 years who were already receivin