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unusual facts about diabetic



Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani

Sheikh Ali became diabetic in later years and lived in his home in Lebanon where he was taken care of by Nasib Albarbir.

Beau Brummels '66

who also played on the album, but was unable to withstand the rigors of touring due to his diabetic condition.

Chubby Oates

He died aged 63 from diabetic complications and a heart attack after giving a performance at a showbusiness luncheon.

Diabetic ketoacidosis

The first full description of diabetic ketoacidosis is attributed to Julius Dreschfeld, a German pathologist working in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Dieting

The Scottish military surgeon, John Rollo, published Notes of a Diabetic Case in 1797.

Ed Sciaky

Sciaky, a diabetic, was on kidney dialysis, and his right foot had been amputated in December 2002 as a result of complications from diabetes.

Eddy Cobiness

Cobiness died in Winnipeg, Manitoba on January 1, 1996 to the effect of complications from diabetic.

George Ludwig Zuelzer

A breakthrough occurred in the early 1920s when Canadian physicians Frederick Banting and Charles Best developed an extract that saved the life of a 14-year-old diabetic patient.

Glycated hemoglobin

The use of hemoglobin A1c for monitoring the degree of control of glucose metabolism in diabetic patients was proposed in 1976 by Anthony Cerami, Ronald Koenig and coworkers.

Henri Menier

However, a diabetic, he died childless a little more than a year after his marriage.

Liraglutide

In January 2012, chef Paula Deen, who is diabetic, produced an e-recipe diabetic cook book titled Delicious Living, Y'All which made use of her sons in promoting diabetic friendly recipes.

Macular edema

Iluvien, a sustained release intravitreal implant developed by Alimera Sciences, has been approved in Austria, Portugal and the U.K. for the treatment of vision impairment associated with chronic diabetic macular edema (DME) considered insufficiently responsive to available therapies.

Metoclopramide

These gastroprokinetic effects make metoclopramide useful in the treatment of gastric stasis (for example: after gastric surgery or diabetic gastroparesis), as an aid in gastrointestinal radiographic studies by accelerating transit through the gastrointestinal system in barium studies, and as an aid in difficult intubation of the small intestine.

PUGNAc

PUGNAc was used by Michael Scofield in the television series Prison Break to keep his blood sugar level high to appear diabetic and to be resistant to insulin shots he was receiving but did not need.

Sudachi

In 2006, a Tokushima University research team published a report which suggests that the fruit may be effective in lowering glucose levels in diabetic patients.

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

In the second season of the television comedy 30 Rock, in the episode "Sandwich Day", Jack Donaghy reads an excerpt of this book to GE head Don Geiss while he is in a diabetic coma, in hopes of waking him.

Wilhelm Stekel

Stekel committed suicide in London by taking an overdose of Aspirin "to end the pain of his prostate and the diabetic gangrene".


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