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• n  a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy

• Patients in the study who were assigned a low-glycemic diet reduced their blood glucose levels, as measured by the amount of hemoglobin A1C in their blood, by 0.
• Instead it measures glucose levels in the body's interstitial fluid.
• Kelly Braden Alamy Think that all sugars are the same? They may all taste sweet to the tongue, but it turns out your body can tell the difference between glucose, fructose and .

News & Articles

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• Echo Therapeutics Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock
  PHILADELPHIA, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Echo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ECTE), a company developing its needle-free Symphony ® CGM System as a non-invasive, wireless continuous glucose monitoring ...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Your diabetes ABCs from the HCHC Diabetes Education Center
  A is for A1c A1c, short for HbA1c, or hemoglobin A1c, measures your average blood glucose over the past three months. Suggested target range is below 7 percent, which corresponds with an average blood glucose level of 150 mg/dl. This test should be performed at least twice a year, as ordered by your primary physician. A is also for aspirin Taking low-dose aspirin everyday has been proven to help ...
  June 13, 2013 - Mt. Pleasant News
• Starches/Glucose: Global Markets
  NEW YORK, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Starches/Glucose: Global Markets http://www.reportlinker.com/p01351943/Starches/Glucose-Global-Markets.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Food_Ingredient ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• David Ludwig in EurekAlert (press release)
  Two low-fat Twinkies, billed as a health food, contain the same amount of sugar as an oral glucose tolerance test - a test used to determine how much sugar someone can digest,Ludwig says.
• Amos Bairoch in Science Daily (press release)
  Professor Bairoch said, "The general public would understand some of the entries in our protein encyclopaedia. Insulin, for instance, is a small protein that controls glucose levels in our blood. The performance-booster EPO is the protein used...
• Joe Manchin in Forbes
  This finding is another step towards rounding out our understanding of the genetic factors that underpin glucose regulation and risk of type 2 diabetes. This variant does not confer sufficient risk to be of clinical utility on its own. But when... Kari Stefansson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1ri_Stef%C3%A1nsson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE4zlrENEs81XVNitp9yN9A9qxqlQ MarketWatch http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/deCODE-Integrate-New-Genetic-Risk/story.aspx%3Fguid%3D%257BC4999A47-B72F-4665-8A92-ADD751273D34%257D&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHaVgP2s54BLw7uHqme1CqNuU4rnQ Dec 8, 2008 42478 58292 glue I couldn't be more happy," Manchin said. "I've watched this team come together and this gentleman right here, Billy Stewart, bring it together. He's the glue. There's not a mother or father watching today that wouldn't be proud to have their...