Quotes about glucose (13 Quotes)



    The glucose concentration in the aqueous humor is about 80 of that of blood and tracks it with a time lag of no more than 5-10 minutes. We've tested a couple of dozen people and now want to extend testing to a large sample and build a more advanced prototype.

    This groundbreaking study gives new hope to people with type 2 diabetes who, despite their attempts to control blood glucose and take medications, fear these life-threatening events,

    It really starts with knowing your numbers. We want everyone to contact their doctors and find out their cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose counts, body mass index and blood pressure.

    We know that a 5 to 10 percent weight loss has significant effects on blood glucose and on blood pressure and triglycerides. If you put them all together -- healthy weight, healthy eating, physical activity -- you will find on every level that you will see a reduction in diabetes and heart disease,



    You can't always see strokes and blindness or kidney, nerve and heart disease, ... But it's there. Research shows that frequent glucose testing reduces your chances of suffering from any of those complications.


    The good news is that intensively controlling glucose significantly reduces heart disease as well as damage to the eyes, nerves, and kidneys in people with type-1 diabetes.

    Preferentially, as long as blood flows normal, the preferred fuel would be fatty acid. On the other hand, if you have decreased blood flow, the heart cleverly switches metabolism from fatty acid to sugar or glucose.

    It wasn't so many years ago that your temperature and pulse were virtually the only aspects of your health you could check without paying a visit to the doctor. (Of course, it was always possible to calculate how tragically overweight you were in the privacy of your own home.) But a proliferation of do-it-yourself health-care products has changed all that, transforming millions of homes into virtual laboratories. Using largely inexpensive kits bought over the counter at pharmacies, consumers can now test themselves for glucose level, blood in the stool, urinary tract infections, blood pressure, pregnancy and, in an imminent new option, cholesterol level. There's a very important shift of medical technology out of the hospital and into the home, ... What's happening is people are beginning to realize that lay people not only are recipients of health care but they can become providers.

    We didn't do anything that wasn't in the rules. The doctor was responsible for the decision to give us the glucose during the very tough competition in bad weather. I feel sorry and embarrassed.




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