How to Use blood sugar in a Sentence
blood sugar
noun- As a diabetic, he needs his blood sugar to stay at the right levels.
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The virus had raised her blood sugar to seven times its normal level.
— The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 15 Nov. 2021 -
Diabetes is a disease that occurs when blood glucose or blood sugar is too high.
— Carlos Mureithi, Quartz, 16 Nov. 2021 -
Unlike some starches and simple sugars, though, fiber is not digestible and so doesn’t spike your blood sugar levels.
— Laken Brooks, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021 -
Is variability of mood more like H.R.V. or like blood sugar?
— Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021 -
Walking also plays a big role in helping to regulate blood sugar levels after eating.
— Maria Godoy, NPR, 27 Nov. 2024 -
It is characterized by higher-than-normal blood sugar levels.
— Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024 -
There, Girma said, doctors told him that his blood sugar was at a potentially fatal level.
— Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021 -
Doctors there got his blood sugar under control and saved him after a pulmonary embolism in 2008.
— Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021 -
The high blood sugar associated with diabetes does its damage to organs and limbs by clogging arteries.
— Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021 -
Physical activity also lowers blood sugar levels, and most cancer cells are kind of sugar-hungry.
— Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2021 -
Physical activity decreases blood sugar levels and cancer cells tend to have a sugar addiction.
— Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 25 Nov. 2021 -
There are plenty of individual tests that measure various aspects of your health, from blood sugar to vitamin levels to proteins linked to certain cancers.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Nov. 2021 -
In the year prior to treatment, the patient for this clinical trial experienced five severe, potentially life-threatening episodes where his blood sugar was too low.
— Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2021 -
Candied yams, also, are a no-no, as the primary focus of these drugs is for people with Type 2 diabetes, meaning something that’s so rich in sugars could impact your blood sugar.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024 -
For conditions like diabetes, proper management of blood sugar levels through medications, diet, and lifestyle changes is crucial.
— Sarah Jividen, Health, 5 Dec. 2024 -
These medications were originally created to help with blood sugar management in people with diabetes, Ali says.
— Korin Miller, Flow Space, 4 Dec. 2024 -
In turn, the greater the rise in blood sugar, the greater the insulin response, and therefore the lower the GI score the better.
— Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 23 Mar. 2023 -
Be sure to eat foods that fill you up and keep your blood sugar steady during the fast.
— Sherry Christiansen Updated, Verywell Health, 21 Aug. 2023 -
Paramedics found that the man’s blood sugar level was normal.
— Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2022 -
That sugar overload can cause your blood sugar to spike, then crash and burn.
— Claire Gillespie, SELF, 5 Jan. 2022 -
At the Vista jail, a check of his blood sugar showed a level of 253 — more than double the normal level.
— Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022 -
The A1c test looks at the last few months of blood sugars, although the most recent month has more of an effect on the A1c than the previous month.
— Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 Mar. 2023 -
If the body doesn't use it well, that sugar stays in the blood, resulting in high blood sugar levels.
— Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2023 -
Without insulin, blood sugar can build up in the bloodstream and break down the body’s own fat and muscle.
— Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 Nov. 2022 -
Steroids always make blood sugar go up, but the effect differs among people and by the dose of steroid.
— Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2022 -
Too large a drop in blood sugar can cause confusion, seizures and, in rare cases, death.
— William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022 -
As a whole, Turner says that her approach is a mix of the Mediterranean diet and foods that won’t spike your blood sugar.
— Korin Miller, Women's Health, 23 Apr. 2023 -
This means that it is absorbed slowly and doesn’t result in high blood sugar spikes.
— Good Housekeeping, 14 Feb. 2023 -
The fiber content also helps your blood sugar levels stay nice and even after a meal, per the CDC.
— Marygrace Taylor, SELF, 30 Apr. 2022
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