Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment Complications What is hyperglycemia (high blood sugar)? Hyperglycemia is a hallmark sign of diabetes. Hyperglycemia is the medical term describing an abnormally high blood glucose (blood sugar) level. Blood sugar is measured in a sample of blood taken from a vein...
In the early stages,ketoacidosis symptomsare just like hyperglycemia symptoms: excessive thirst, frequent urination, and high blood glucose. As it progresses, you may have extreme hunger with unexpected weight loss, feel fatigued and confused, experience trouble breathing, and have dry skin.21 Does ...
antipsychotic drug use among seniors has increased dramatically over the last decade to treat a variety of conditions, including behavioral symptoms of dementia. recent warnings have been issued regarding the use of these drugs in older persons owing to a number of adverse effects, including ...
The Prior Symptoms in Children Hospitalized with Acute Asthma Exacerbation PURPOSE: Several studies have suggested that many children have no symptoms before hospitalization with asthma exacerbations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how many asymptomatic children were hospitalized for asthma exace...
OBJECTIVE: To examine the recent suggestion that impaired fasting glucose may protect against depression, whereas a diagnosis of diabetes might then result in depression. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Cross-sectional analysis of 4,228 adults (mean age 60.7 years, 73.0% men) who underwent oral glucos...
A similar approach is used in the management of gestational diabetes. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic, multisystem disease heralded by signs and symptoms of persistent hyperglycemia and confirmed by a random plasma glucose level greater than 200 mg/dL, a fasting plasma glucose level greater ...
AMI was diagnosed in the presence of an increase and/or decrease of cardiac biomarker (troponin I high sensitivity—Tn I Hs) with at least one value above the 99th percentile upper reference limit associated with one of the following: symptoms of ischemia, new or presumed new significant ST-...
Chorea, Hyperglycemia, Basal Ganglia Syndrome (C-H-BG) in an uncontrolled diabetic patient with normal glucose levels on presentation Patient: Female, 66 Final Diagnosis: Chorea hyperglycemia Basal Ganglia Syndrome (C-H-BG) Symptoms: Hemibalism hemichorea Medication: 鈥 Clinical Proced... J Bizet...
Despite the growing consensus that postprandial glucose levels provide a more accurate and valuable early marker of diabetes symptoms than fasting plasma glucose, the ability to forestall diabetic complications by managing postprandial hyperglycemia has not been proved. Patients who are not considered to ...
The signs and symptoms of hypernatremia are variable, including seizures and depression of sensorium. Associated metabolic abnormalities include metabolic acidosis, hyperglycemia and weight loss. The mortality of hypernatremia in adults exceeds... AI Arieff,JC Ayus - 《Current Opinion in Critical Care...