Synonyms for diabetes
ˌdaɪ əˈbi tɪs, -tizdi·a·betes

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1. diabetesnoun

   A group of metabolic diseases whereby a person (or other animal) has high blood sugar due to an inability to produce, or inability to metabolize, sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin.

   Synonyms:
   diabetes mellitus, DM

Princeton's WordNet

1. diabetesnoun

   a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst

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1. • Polygenic Disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "diabetes":

   diabetic, diabetics, sugar

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1. Rudy Tanzi:

   The elephant in the room is that we wait until the brain deteriorates to the point of dysfunction before we treat this disease, that's like saying wait until you lose half of the beta cells in your pancreas before we diagnose diabetes.

2. Rui Li:

   DSMT helps patients to improve glycemic control, which could reduce the risk for diabetes complications, hospitalizations, and health care costs.

3. Ralph Sacco:

   We believe the pathways of which artificially sweetened beverages would affect the brain are probably through vascular mechanisms, when the authors controlled for hypertension and diabetes and obesity the effects diminish, which implies that some of the effects of artificially sweetened beverages could still be going through a vascular pathway.

4. Oi Yan Poon:

   According to psychological and public health research, microaggressions can lead to negative health consequences including heart disease, diabetes,depressionand substance abuse, these statements may seem innocent, but…they underhandedly and subtly undermine the very real experiences with racism, sexism and other forms of oppression.

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