hyperglycaemic love

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of hyperglycemic.

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Examples

  • These days, he's on several anti-hyperglycaemic drugs as well as insulin, and because he's not in as good health as he used to be and is under a lot of stress to boot, his blood sugar is rarely below the upper limit of normal and is often quite a lot higher than that.

    Diabetes Details 8: The Damage jimhines 2010

  • Can't quite agree with you on Musc Maori, which I tried once and found scarily, cloyingly sweet -- pulling the chocolate-y facet of musk into hyperglycaemic territory...

    Fiddling while Rome burns Marina Geigert 2008

  • His levels are relatively stable, he doesn't have as many "hypos" (hyperglycaemic attacks caused by a sudden drop in blood sugar) as he once did, and his weight is under control after he initially gained four kilos as part of his four daily insulin injections.

    AFL Latest News 2010

  • His levels are relatively stable, he doesn't have as many "hypos" (hyperglycaemic attacks caused by a sudden drop in blood sugar) as he once did, and his weight is under control after he initially gained four kilos as part of his four daily insulin injections.

    AFL Latest News 2010

  • The year before I was diagnosed as hyperglycaemic this was my biggest complaint too, "I can't stay awake and this isn't normal."

    Ask MetaFilter 2010

  • Nishikawa T, Edelstein D, Du XL, Yamagishi S, Matsumura T, et al. (2000) Normalizing mitochondrial superoxide production blocks three pathways of hyperglycaemic damage.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Franco Folli et al. 2010

  • It is the flip-side of our overblown expectations about the festive season, a bilious reaction to the hyperglycaemic levels of fun we are supposed to be having.

    Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2009

  • Sitagliptin is a member of a class of oral anti-hyperglycaemic agents called dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors and is licensed as an adjunct to diet and exercise for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in combination with either metformin and/or a sulphonylurea, or in combination with metformin and/or a PPARy agonist, when the other agent (s) do not provide adequate glycaemic control.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Nichols GA, Gomez-Caminero A (2007) Weight changes following the initiation of new anti-hyperglycaemic therapies.

    PLoS Biology 2008

  • As is typical with other anti-hyperglycaemic agents, when sitagliptin is used in combination with a sulphonylurea, (a class of medications known to cause hypoglycaemia) the incidence of hypoglycaemia increased over that of placebo.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2008

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