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GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE

Specialty Definition: GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE

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Health

A pathological state in which the fasting plasma glucose level is less than 140 mg per deciliter and the 30-, 60-, or 90-minute plasma glucose concentration following a glucose tolerance test exceeds 200 mg per deciliter. This condition is seen frequently in diabetes mellitus but also occurs with other diseases. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Metabolic Syndrome X: Convergence of Insulin Resistance, Glucose Intolerance, Hypertension, Obesity, and Dyslipidemias-Searching for the Underlyi (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE

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Health

The desired outcomes may vary among patients and include such indices as a gain in the quality of life as judged by the patient, reduction of hypertension, and amelioration of glucose intolerance. (references)

Weight reduction surgery has been reported to improve several comorbid conditions such as sleep apnea and obesity-associated hypoventilation, glucose intolerance, frank diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and serum lipid abnormalities. (references)

In the 1983 tables, desirable weights for men and women in the shortest stature groups are 12 and 14 pounds higher respectively than they were in 1959. It is recognized that such increased body weight may contribute to high blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia, and glucose intolerance or similar risk factors, apart from the impact of weight on mortality. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

glucose intolerance

75

glucose intolerance test

4

glucose intolerance diet

4

glucose intolerance symptom

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-g-i-l-l-n-n-o-o-r-s-t-u"

-5 letters: cocounselling, cogenerations, crenellations, electrologies, noncollegiate, nonelectrical, recollections, selenocentric, stereological.

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Alternative Orthography: GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 4C 55 43 4F 53 45      49 4E 54 4F 4C 45 52 41 4E 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01001100 01010101 01000011 01001111 01010011 01000101 00100000 01001001 01001110 01010100 01001111 01001100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#76 &#85 &#67 &#79 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#79 &#76 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 0055 0043 004F 0053 0045      0049 004E 0054 004F 004C 0045 0052 0041 004E 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4146553749533924348544946395235483739

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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