How to Use diabetes in a Sentence

diabetes

noun
  • This is true for type 2 diabetes in both children and adults.
    Gary Gilles, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2023
  • This helps reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
    Janet Colson, Fortune Well, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The doctor’s notes say that Jack didn’t have a history of diabetes.
    Calmatters, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Even if the number of diabetes cases does increase, not all is lost.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 2 July 2023
  • Learning how to take care of your diabetes and working on habits that keep your health steady—all while juggling the rest of your day-to-day life—is a lot.
    Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Summary Snacks can be enjoyed as part of a healthy diabetes meal plan.
    Lindsey Desoto, Health, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Eli Lilly, the maker of diabetes drug Mounjaro, is expected to get the drug approved for weight loss late this year or early next year.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • While vital to people with diabetes, insulin can cause seizures and even death for the average person.
    Ashleigh Furlong, Fortune Europe, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Avella discovered that the patient had been diagnosed with diabetes, but rarely spoke of it.
    Ilana Arougheti, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Either way, women with PCOS have a higher risk of diabetes, excess weight gain, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure.
    Caroline Hopkins, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Her 12-year-old son, Trevor, has Type 1 diabetes, which means his blood sugar levels can be affected by anything from a snack to his sleep schedule.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Hypertension and diabetes – a growing problem in the United States -- are the main cause of kidney failure.
    Brenda Cain, cleveland, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For people with diabetes and obesity, the test might be slightly more helpful, since only about 22% of them are likely to respond to GLP-1 drugs.
    Alice Park, Time, 30 June 2023
  • Diagnosed with diabetes around age 12, Joe never picked up healthy eating habits at home.
    Clover Hope, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
  • Bad news for red meat lovers: A new study found eating more than one serving of red meat per week is associated with a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes.
    Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Bananas have high sugar which can lead to or further complicate diabetes in your cat.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The mom of a child with Type 1 diabetes encountered a maze of medical suppliers and insurance.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Despite the lack of fame—and the hurricanes, deadlines, strokes, heart attacks, bypass surgery, prostate cancer, and diabetes—Plunket has kept writing.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
  • The medication — taken by injection in the thigh, stomach or arm — is FDA-approved to treat Type 2 diabetes, but many have used it off-label for weight loss.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • According to the World Health Organization, diabetes became the ninth leading cause of death in 2019.
    Wei Gordon, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Novo Nordisk's trial showed that along with helping patients lose weight, the drug reduced the risk of heart attack or stroke by 20 percent in people without diabetes.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Other efforts seek to repurpose existing medicines, such as the diabetes drug Metformin, for use against Alzheimer’s.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • Januvia, a diabetes drug that is among the first 10 drugs up for price negotiation, and Combigan, a glaucoma drug, cost about 10 times more.
    Simon F. Haeder, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Services are also now available to connect you to your own personal diabetes coach.
    Debra Manzella, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2023
  • And the harmful messages aren’t just coming from strangers who criticize the Scouts for promoting diabetes — which has happened, Hanson says.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Lack of sleep is a precursor to just about every health issue in the book—heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and depression.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 4 May 2023
  • In Type 1 diabetes, the body mistakenly attacks and destroys beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Though their use for weight loss is comparatively recent, GLP-1 drugs have a more than 15-year history as treatments for diabetes.
    Deirdre Hipwell, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Victoza was the next most commonly prescribed GLP-1 injectable for diabetes.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Or about your support for law enforcement, horse racing or curing diabetes.
    Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 6 July 2023

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