Diabetes During Pregnancy

Diabetes is an age old disease, which is recorded as early as Greek civilization. This disease is characterized by excretion of large amount of very dilute urine. Diabetes can also be explained as a syndrome characterized by disordered metabolism and inappropriate blood sugar level.
On the basis of symptoms diabetes can be classified into two types […]

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Hormone Replacement Therapy

Many post menopausal women suffer from hot flushes, dryness of vagina and painful sexual intercourse. Moreover, they are at an increased risk of brittleness of bones and unfavorable changes in blood lipids. An increasing number of such women are being started on replacement oestrogen or oestrogen-progestin hormone treatment both as prevention and treatment. In the […]

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MENSES

Menses become irregular or may cease when diabetes is uncontrolled and become regular when diabetes is well controlled. The kidney threshold for glucose may be reduced during menstruation. Hence glucose may appear in urine even with normal blood glucose level.
Fluctuations in blood glucose level may occur in different phases of the menstrual cycle. The pattern […]

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