How to Use diabetes mellitus in a Sentence

diabetes mellitus

noun
  • Most of the time, says Dr. Ramin, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, both type 1 and type 2, is the culprit.
    Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • One of the goals of the camp was helping to educate children, ages 5 to 16, about living with their disease, diabetes mellitus.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • There are even rarer causes of diabetes mellitus, some of which are likely in lean or even underweight people.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 5 July 2023
  • The drug was authorized for people with at least one risk factor—obesity, those over the age of 60, diabetes mellitus or heart disease—for developing severe illness, the MHRA said.
    Lisa Kim, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Among the most common complications of pregnancy is a high level of glucose in the blood, a condition known as gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
    Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The drug is designed to treat patients with heart failure, type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, and other cardiovascular risk factors.
    Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 29 June 2023
  • Insufficient insulin or bodily resistance to it causes high levels of glucose to remain in the blood, a condition formally known as diabetes mellitus.
    Jerome Groopman, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Mostly, type 2 diabetes, otherwise known as diabetes mellitus in the medical community, as the kidneys are under more stress to absorb excess glucose, Dr. Weiss explains.
    Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 27 Sep. 2020
  • This allowed doctors to rule out other possible causes such as diabetes mellitus, iron deficiency anemia, and spinal cord dysfunction and put their fingers on the restless anal syndrome diagnosis.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • His favorite example is exenatide, a synthetic hormone that treats diabetes mellitus type 2, originally derived from the saliva of Gila monsters.
    Troy Farah, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Weight loss injections are prescription-only medicines that are designed to help individuals lose weight and manage metabolic disorders like diabetes mellitus.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The conditions include cancer, heart issues such as heart failure or coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, solid organ transplant, obesity or severe obesity, sickle cell disease or Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
    Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Such conditions include cancer, heart issues such as heart failure or coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, solid organ transplant, obesity or severe obesity, sickle cell disease or Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
    Peggy O’Hare, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2021
  • These conditions include cancer, heart issues such as heart failure or coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, solid organ transplant, obesity or severe obesity, pregnancy, sickle cell disease or Type 2 diabetes mellitus.
    Taylor Pettaway, ExpressNews.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Diabetes, specifically type 1 diabetes mellitus, is an autoimmune illness impacting the production of insulin.
    Joe Shen, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021

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