Glycemia

Quick meaning: Glycemia is a noun meaning (medicine, American spelling) (occasionally, ambiguously) Hyperglycemia.

Meaning

(medicine, American spelling) (occasionally, ambiguously) Hyperglycemia.

More Meanings

1. (medicine, American spelling) Presence of glucose in the blood (which is always true), and (usually, more specifically) average concentration thereof over time, and its regulation; in this sense, glycemia is hypernymic to euglycemia, hyperglycemia, and hypoglycemia, and a mention of glycemia is a reference to blood sugar regulation and degree or quality thereof.

Example Sentences

We explored whether subjective sleep duration, sleep quality, or risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are associated with glycemia, body mass index (BMI), or blood pressure (BP) in overweight/obese youth.

Education has a positive effect on adherence to recommended diet and glycemia regulation in diabetes patients after four-week follow-ups. However, after two years, participants showed a decrease in adherence to recommended diet and increased glycemia.

Word Forms

• glycemias
• glycaemia

Synonyms for glycemia

Depending on context, synonyms include glycosemia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include postprandial, hyper, glycaemia, glucemia, glycosimeter, glycohaemoglobin.

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