Word: insulin
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Diabetics are unable to produce enough insulin, a natural hormone that enables cells to absorb sugar. In so-called Type I diabetes, which most often strikes in childhood, patients lose the ability to make any insulin. For these cases, the standard daily treatment is a blood test and one or two self- administered insulin shots. The shots keep the patient alive and well, but blood-sugar levels swing sharply, from relatively low after a dose of insulin to much higher before the next injection. These fluctuations gradually cause damage to the body's organs...
...sugar & would reduce complications, and the NIH study, which monitored 1,441 patients, was designed to test that proposition. While roughly half the subjects received the standard treatment, the others were put on an intensive program: tests of sugar levels at least four times a day, three or more insulin shots and a special diet. The results were striking: over the 10 years, the group receiving stricter treatment suffered about half as much eye and kidney damage as the other patients...
Diabetes mellitus, a disease characterized by the body's inability to make an essential blood sugar, insulin, is complicated by cell dysfunction, particularly in the retina. Wald's research examines the blood flow in the retina in the early stages of diabetes, before any retinal disease has developed...
...their own. Over the past five years, doctors have developed more and more treatments to control the opportunistic infections and illnesses that appear in other patients. Scientists may not discover a cure, but if they learn how to control an HIV infection the way diabetes can be managed with insulin, they will have tamed one of the most feared killers of the 20th century...
...higher than normal level of antibodies to a protein in cow's milk called bovine serum albumin; their bodies have targeted the protein as an invader to be destroyed. By a terrible coincidence, a section of this milk protein is almost identical to a protein on the surface of insulin-producing cells. When these people are sensitized to milk, the theory goes, they are also sensitized to their own cells, leading to the cells' destruction...