Diabetes treatment

Diabetes treatment

Diabetes prevention and treatment.

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Starch

Health care; Diabetes treatment

Another name for carbohydrate, one of the three main nutrients in food.

Pancreas

Health care; Diabetes treatment

An organ that makes insulin and enzymes for digestion. The pancreas is located behind the lower part of the stomach and is about the size of a hand.

Liver

Health care; Diabetes treatment

An organ in the body that changes food into energy, removes alcohol and poisons from the blood, and makes bile, a substance that breaks down fats and helps rid the body of wastes.

An oral medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes. Tolbutamide lowers blood glucose by helping the pancreas make more insulin and by helping the body better use the insulin it makes. Tolbutamide belongs ...

Tolazamide

Health care; Diabetes treatment

An oral medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes. Tolazamide lowers blood glucose by helping the pancreas make more insulin and by helping the body better use the insulin it makes. Tolazamide belongs ...

Avandia

Health care; Diabetes treatment

An oral medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes. Rosiglitazone helps treat insulin resistance, the condition in which your body doesn't use insulin the way it should. Rosiglitazone belongs to the ...

Rosiglitazone

Health care; Diabetes treatment

An oral medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes. Rosiglitazone helps treat insulin resistance, the condition in which your body doesn't use insulin the way it should. Rosiglitazone belongs to the ...