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- Diabetes mellitus
- (dye-ah-BEE-teez) (MELL-ih-tus) A disease that occurs when the body is not able to use blood glucose (sugar). Blood sugar levels are controlled by insulin, a hormone in the body that helps move glucose (sugar) from the blood to muscles and other tissues. Diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not make enough insulin or the body does not respond to the insulin that is made. There are two main types of diabetes mellitus: type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes.
- Diet
- What a person eats and drinks. Any type of eating plan.
- Dumping syndrome
- A common side effect of gastric bypass surgery that occurs when food or liquid (sweets and carbohydrates) enters the small intestine too rapidly, causing cramps, nausea, sweating, weakness, dizziness, and occasionally diarrhea.
- Duodenum
- The first part of the small intestine connected to the stomach and continuing to the jejunum.
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