NURSING 2LA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gestational Diabetes, Blood Sugar, Prediabetes
21 Oct 2014
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Dawn phenomenon diabetes disabesity fasting blood glucose gestational diabetes. A counterregulatory hormone is a hormone that opposes the action of another. Levels of glucose in the blood when fasting the normal range for blood glucose is 70 to 100 mg/dl. Levelsbetween 100 and 126 mg/dl are referred to as impaired fasting glucoseor pre-diabetes. Diabetes is typically diagnosed when fasting blood glucose levels are. Gluconeogenesis (gng) is a metabolic pathway that results in the generation of glucose from non- carbohydrate carbon substrates such as pyruvate, lactate, glycerol, and glucogenic amino acids. This can help determine how well a person"s diabetes is being controlled over time. Glycogenolysis is the breakdown of glycogen (n) to glucose-1-phosphate and glycogen (n-1). Glycogen branches are catabolized by the sequential removal of glucose monomers via phosphorolysis, by the enzyme glycogen phosphorylase. deficiency of glucose in the bloodstream. a hormone produced in the pancreas by the islets of. Langerhans that regulates the amount of glucose in the blood.
