Reactive hypoglycemia (reactive low blood sugar) can occur during pregnancy due to hormonal changes. Eating small, regular, nutritious meals or snacks can help stabilize your blood sugar. Share on ...

All day long, your blood sugar levels go up and down. If the sugar -- or glucose-- levels in your blood are too low, you can sometimes get a condition called hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia mainly affects ...

Insulin is a hormone that moves glucose, or blood sugar, from the blood into the body’s cells, where it’s then stored or used for energy. During pregnancy, your body produces more insulin to help your ...

Jay H. Shubrook, DO: Hi. This is Jay Shubrook, DO, family physician and diabetologist at Touro University, California. I am happy to have with me one of my colleagues who does extensive work in ...

What Strategies Are Known to Prevent Hypoglycemia, and What Are the Clinical Recommendations for Those at Risk for Hypoglycemia? Recurrent hypoglycemia increases the risk of severe hypoglycemia and ...

Severe hypoglycemia may increase the risk of a poor outcome in patients with type 2 diabetes assigned to an intensive glucose-lowering intervention. We analyzed data from a large study of intensive ...

The term hypoglycemia refers to an abnormally low level of blood sugar. Glucose provides the main source of energy which the various cells of the body use to perform their functions. When the glucose ...

Hypoglycemia or a below normal blood sugar level is a common complication of diabetes. The condition can also arise due to prolonged starvation, certain hormonal disorders such as hypopituitarism and ...

Mohammad Pourhosseinzadeh, M.D./Ph.D. student with Professor Mark Huising, watches undergraduate student Joel Sanchez working at a dissecting microscope. New work led by Pourhosseinzadeh and Huising ...

Hypoglycemia is the major barrier to good glycemic control in patients with diabetes mellitus. Furthermore, randomized controlled trials have emphasized the grave risks associated with severe ...

We examined the associations between moderate and severe hypoglycemia (blood glucose, 41 to 70 mg per deciliter [2.3 to 3.9 mmol per liter] and ≤40 mg per deciliter [2.2 mmol per liter], respectively) ...