Across
- 2. energy that comes from food
- 5. a blood glucose check requiring a person not to eat for 8-12 hours, usually overnight
- 6. take your shoes and socks off and have your doctor examine these at each visit
- 7. gum disease
- 9. hormone that counters the effects of insulin
- 10. hormone created by pancratic beta cells
- 12. damage to these organs may lead dialysis
- 14. type of diabetes due to lack of insulin
- 15. regular physical activity to develop and maintain physical fitness
- 16. one of the simplest forms of sugar
- 19. type of juice commonly usrd to treat low blood
- 20. type of diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy
- 21. opacification of the lens of the eyes
- 22. people with diabetes often count these at meal times
- 23. pancreatic cells that produce insulin
- 26. Latin word meaning sweet
- 27. low blood glucose level
- 29. stress hormones that can cause blood glucose elevation
- 30. Greek word meaning to siphon or pass through
Down
- 1. specialist who treats patients with diabetes
- 3. darkened skin patches
- 4. damage to these structures in the body may result to amputation
- 8. from the Greek word meaning thirsty
- 11. diabetes complication involving the eye which mau cause visual impairment and blindness
- 13. diabetes complication which manifests as numbness or tingling sensation of the hands an feet
- 17. organ behind the stomach that produces important hormones like insulin and glucagon
- 18. used to test capillary blood glucose
- 24. excessive passing of urine
- 25. test for average blood glucose for the past 2-3 months
- 28. most common type of diabetes