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Diseases » Impaired glucose tolerance » Glossary

Glossary for Impaired glucose tolerance

Abdominal obesity metabolic syndrome: A syndrome characterized by a group of conditions that are considered major risk factors for diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease.
Acromegaly: A hormonal disorder involving excess growth hormone production by the pituitary gland.
Chronic Pancreatitis: Chronic ongoing inflammation of the pancreas causing digestive complaints.
Cushing's syndrome: A rare syndrome where excessive secretion of corticosteroids by the adrenal cortex leads to a variety of symptoms. Hormone-secreting adrenal or pituitary tumors are often the cause of the excessive corticosteroid secretion.
Diabetes: Failing or reduced ability of the body to handle sugars.
Diabetes-like symptoms: Symptoms similar to those of diabetes
Gestational diabetes: Diabetes that occurs in pregnant women, usually resolving after birth.
Gigantism: A rare endocrine disorder where excess growth hormone is produced prior to puberty.
Hyperparathyroidism: Increased secretion of parathyroid hormone from the parathyroid glands.
Hyperprolactinemia: High levels of prolactin in the blood.
Hypertension: High blood pressure
Hyperthyroidism: Too much thyroid hormone production.
Insulin Resistance: The resistance of the body to insulin
MODY diabetes: Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young affects approximately one or two per cent of people who have diabetes, and may often go unrecognised in its early stages. It is a form of diabetes that develops before the patient reaches 25. It also runs in families, and can pass from one generation to the next. MODY does not always require insulin treatment.
Metabolic Syndrome: A common body syndrome with the "deadly quartet" of major conditions: obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and high lipids.
No symptoms: The absence of noticable symptoms.
Obesity: An increase in the body weight greater than that required for normal function that is characterised by the accumulation of excessive fat
Oral thrush: Candida fungal infection of the mouth.
Overweight: An increase in the body weight greater than that required for normal function that is characterised by the accumulation of excessive fat
POEMS: Very rare plasma cell disorder
Pancreas conditions: Any condition that affects the pancreas
Pheochromocytoma: Pheochromocytoma is a neuroendocrine tumor of the medulla of the adrenal glands (originating in the chromaffin cells), or extra-adrenal chromaffin tissue that failed to involute after birth and secretes excessive amounts of catecholamines, usually epinephrine and norepinephrine.
Polycystic ovary syndrome: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine disorder that affects approximately 5% of all women.
Primary Hyperaldosteronism: A condition characterised by the excessive production and release into the circulation of aldosterone
Prolactinoma: Benign cancer of the pituitary gland producing prolactin.
Somatostatinoma: A very rare disorder where tumors in glands that produce somatostatin affect the secretion of the hormone. The tumor mainly occurs in the pancreas but can also occur in the intestinal tract.
Type 1 diabetes: Severe insulin-treated diabetes typically occurring in young people.
Type 2 diabetes: Most common diabetes in adults, usually progressing slowly, mostly treated without insulin at diagnosis.