Talk:Hyperglycemia

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·22:42, 29 March 2008 (UTC)151.213.82.136 (talk)Test your blood glucose regulary. How do I do this??

Get a blood glucose testing machine, the things that prick the finger.J. M. 04:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Too much of this article sounds like a medical journal. Example: A hyperglycemic condition without other classic symptoms is not dispositive of a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, but hyperglycemia is also an independent medical condition with other causes.

"is not dispositive"? With that double negative in there, does that mean it is positive?? I would rewrite this in plain English but I'm not entirely confident in what this article is saying.

Another example: By comparison to hyperglycemia as an independent non-diabetic condition, Diabetes mellitus, in its organic form, is an apparently auto-immune disease of unknown cause and unknown cure, in which the Islets of Langerhans (a subordinate organ within the pancreas) fail to produce sufficient quantities of the hormone insulin or produce no insulin at all.

First of all, that sentence is way too long and should be broken up. Also, it's filled with medical jargon. What does "in its organic form" mean? What the heck does "By comparison to hyperglycemia as an independent non-diabetic condition" refer to?

Could someone with more of a science background help out and strip away the jargon and rewrite this in a way that would be useful to a wider audience?

[edit] Non-diabetic hyperglycaemia

I don't like the first paragraph especially - as described here, "non-diabetic" hyperglycaemia seems to be very similar to Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity and to an insensitivity of cells to insulin. Moreover, as far as I am aware, to this date Type 2 diabetes has no proven mechanism as to how obesity affects insulin sensitivity, or even if there is a proven link with obesity, although management plans focus on weight loss and diet control as two of very few treatments that have some efficiency in regulating blood glucose level in this type of diabetes. I'm not an expert on Type 2 diabetes and don't have sufficient knowledge that I could do a good job; however I feel that this section of the article especially could be cleaned up and improved upon significantly.

Thanks Yazza 01:46, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expand to simulate hypoglycemia

It seems to me that this article should be modeled after the hypoglycemia article, since they're similar conditions. Currently it seems a bit lopsided information-wise. 72.70.165.104 04:01, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A question about blood glucose levels

I am not a qualified doctor (my abillity to use the title "Dr" comes from my having a Ph.D. in Psychology, but just from general experience and reading, I wonder whether the range of blood sugars giving here (4 to 7 millimoles) is a little too narrow. For people with diabetes mellitus, should we describe those below 3 as hypoglycemia, and those above 11.1 as hyperglycemia? Also, would it not depend on how long it was since one last ate? By the way, blood sugar meters may not start flashing up the "Check ketone level message" until blood glucose levels are over 13.1. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:28, 8 February 2008 (UTC)