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. Eran Elinav:

   For this person, an individualized tailored diet would not have included tomatoes, but may have included other ingredients that many of us would not consider healthy, but are in fact healthy for her, before this study was conducted, there is no way that anyone could have provided her with such personalized recommendations, which may substantially impact the progression of her pre-diabetes.

2. Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez:

   Sweetened beverages lead to weight gain and obesity and this leads to diabetes and heart failure, the take home message is to drink water instead of sweetened beverages.

3. Zev Wainberg:

   It's very bidirectional, for example, are these patients who have pancreatic cancer developing diabetes as a result of their cancer, or vice versa ? Nobody is entirely sure.

4. Ian Neeland:

   Statins are one piece of the prevention wheel. Both USPSTF and ACC/AHA are not the only piece, there's diet, physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight, blood pressure control, making sure you control diabetes or a risk for diabetes. All those aspects play into heart health. Statin medication is one way to reduce risk.

5. Geoffrey Goodfellow:

   [ Human ophthalmologists ] can actually diagnose diabetes in the eye, high blood pressure, as well as other systemic and metabolic problems that the patient may not know that they have.