Any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst

Usage examples of diabetes.

The various corticoids, singly and together, could be used in cases of adrenal cortical failure much as insulin is used in diabetes.

High blood pressure magnifies the aging and symptoms associated with diabetes, causes kidney failure and many other hormone-related conditions, and be triggered by thyroid, adrenal, or kidney problems.

These have been shown to help increase insulin receptivity, which can help lower the risk of aging from type 2 diabetes.

From the undoubted fact that gene mutations like the Tay-Sachs mutation or chromosomal abnormalities like the extra chromosome causing Down syndrome are the sources of pathological variation, human geneticists have assumed that heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and bipolar syndrome must also be genetic variants.

She hated cystic fibrosis just like you hate diabetes, but there was nothing she or I-could do.

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I also appreciate the invaluable help of eight people with diabetes who contributed their experiences and their wisdom to my book: Jewett Pattee, Reverend Edward Schroeder, Michael Jessup, Rod Frantz, Vicki Gaubeca, Michael Raymond, Joe Clifford, and Jim Collins.

I had been diagnosed with adult-onset, non-insulin-dependent, type 2 diabetes about ten days before, and I was just beginning to accept the reality of this sweet kiss of death.

It took me several moments to take in the significance of this droll remark: that I was entering a new community made up of people with diabetes, that we were all in this together, and that there was even a clever nickname attached to the membership.

Then I began to laugh, for the first time since diabetes had changed my life.

Since being diagnosed with diabetes, I had been feeling sorry for myself in an elaborate way.

It would be no great exaggeration to call diabetes a spiritual experience, in much the same vein as a bar mitzvah, a sacrament, or the moment of enlightenment.