Diabetes
Across
- 5. chemical substance made by your body when there isn't enough insulin in our blood
- 7. found in the pancreas that makes insulin
- 9. the eye disease that occurs in someone with diabetes when the small blood vessels of the retina become swollen and leak liquid into the retina
- 10. insulin dependent diabetes that requires life-long insulin treatment
- 11. non-insulin-dependent diabetes, a condition in which your body either doesn't make enough insulin or doesn't use it properly and can't properly use blood glucose as energy
- 14. hormone made by the pancreas that assists in the use of glucose for energy
- 15. blood sugar that gives energy to cells
- 16. condition often caused by an infection or illness like dehydration or from taking too little insulin
- 17. the condition which the pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin
Down
- 1. also known as high blood glucose, this condition occurs when your blood glucose level is too high
- 2. also known as low blood sugar
- 3. diabetes caused nerve damage
- 4. diabetic kidney disease in which protein is spilled into the urine, overtime can results in significant kidney damage
- 6. small device used to check blood glucose levels
- 8. the diabetes some women develop during pregnancy; it typically subsides after the baby is delivered
- 12. hormone that is injected into a person with diabetes to raise their blood glucose level when it's very low
- 13. the organ that makes insulin, needed to convert glucose to energy