Diabetes

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