When a patient with diabetes stays on an empty stomach, most of the time, his blood sugar level rises to extremely high levels. Your way of living and eating habits are also thought to be to blame for this. Hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar in diabetes, is characterized by a sharp rise in blood sugar levels.

This is the result of either insufficient insulin production or improper insulin response by the body. Diabetes is a chronic illness that develops when the body either cannot use the insulin that the pancreas makes properly or does not create enough of it. One hormone that controls blood sugar is insulin.

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