Sentences with phrase «blood sugar concentration»

Insulin resistance is typically caused by sustained high blood sugar concentrations, which cause a continuous release of insulin by the pancreas to lower blood sugar.

This tells the cells to take up glucose and sock it away as the storage carbohydrate glycogen, thus lowering blood sugar concentrations.

Prunes are very high in anti-oxidants, and are a good source of energy in the form of simple sugars, yet they do not cause a rapid rise in blood sugar concentration, possibly because of high fiber, fructose, and sorbitol content.

For the first time researchers have created synthetic cells that mimic how natural beta cells sense blood sugar concentration and secrete just the right amount of insulin.

Glycation is increased in people who have chronic high blood sugar concentrations such as in poorly managed diabetes patients.

Immediately following birth, this high insulin level causes a steep decline in the blood sugar concentration of the babies.

That way, he says, a plastic slip with a drop of blood on it for diagnosis would not have to go into a separate machine to read out, say, the blood type or blood sugar concentration.

I led the development of the scientific standing of the Department of Child Health, with wide ranging innovations including further studies on the endocrine control of blood sugar concentrations to the influences of poverty and deprivation on the prevention and management of serious head injury in children.

To treat hypoglycemia, corrections to blood sugar concentrations must be made.