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Gestational Diabetes

What Is Gestational Diabetes? Gestational diabetes sometimes develops when a woman is pregnant. It’s when the blood glucose level (blood sugar level) of the mother goes too high during pregnancy.   Having an elevated blood glucose level during pregnancy can cause problems for your baby—if it’s left untreated.&n

Diabetic Neuropathy Causes

Clinical Trials for Hypoglycemia

 

Clinical Trials for Hyperglycemia

 

Assessing How Well Diabetes is Controlled

There are two common ways that physicians assess how well diabetes is controlled:  [1] Frequent measurements of blood glucose, and [2] measurement of glycohemoglobin (A1c).  Each method has its good and bad points, but combined they give a

Diagnosing Diabetes

In diagnosing diabetes, physicians primarily depend upon the results of specific glucose tests.  However, test results are just part of the information that goes into the diagnosis of type 1 or ty

The Diabetes Center

Diabetes is a very big topic! To make the diagnosis, complications and treatment of diabetes more understandable, we have broken "diabetes" into several dozen diabetes topic pages which go into more and more detail. Our search engine will help you find specific diabetes information, or you can come back to this introduction page to see each of the diabetes topic pages listed.

Normal Regulation of Blood Glucose

Endocrine Tumors of the Pancreas

The human pancreas is an amazing organ with two main functions: [1] to produce pancreatic endocrine hormones (eg, insulin & glucagon), which help regulate many aspec
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