Diabetes
Across
- 2. Overweight weight that is higher than what is considered to be healthy
- 5. Procedure where finger is pricked to obtain blood from capillary to test blood sugar for people who have diabetes
- 10. Low blood glucose
- 12. Serious condition in which extremely high blood glucose level, along with a severe lack of insulin, result in the breakdown of body fat for energy and an accumulation of ketones in blood and urine
- 14. When type I diabetes usually first appears in children
- 15. Small increase or decrease in measurement; deals with amounts of insulin
- 16. Activity requiring physical effort, carried out especially to sustain or improve health and fitness
- 17. Carbohydrate that is quick and easy fuel for body
- 18. If high blood sugar is not treated promptly with insulin, it can lead to this
- 20. Unconsciousness by too little sugar and too much insulin in the blood
- 24. Can also test someone’s blood sugar levels
- 26. Diabetes that is diagnosed during pregnancy
- 28. Syringe that holds insulin in the pump
- 29. Any disease in which the body's ability to use blood sugar is impaired
- 30. Simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates
Down
- 1. Hormone produced by the pancreas that stimulates body cells to take up and use blood sugar
- 3. Pressure of the blood in the circulatory system
- 4. Condition that come before type II diabetes; blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be considered diabetes
- 6. How people with type I diabetes take in insulin
- 7. Occurs when too little insulin is taken in or too much food is eaten
- 8. High blood sugar
- 9. Organ that produces insulin, located behind lower part of stomach
- 11. External battery powered device that injects precise amounts of insulin for people with diabetes
- 13. Chemical created by body when there is not enough insulin in blood
- 19. Form of diabetes, which occurs most often in people over the age of 30
- 21. Type II diabetes risk factor that could be helped with a diet plan
- 22. More serious, insulin-dependent diabetes, produces little or no insulin
- 23. Cells in pancreas responsible for producing insulin
- 25. When people who produce sufficient insulin but whose body cells do not respond normally to insulin
- 27. A special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either to lose weight or for medical reasons