glycemia

English

Alternative forms

• glycaemia
• glucæmia (obsolete)
• glucohæmia (obsolete)

Etymology

From glyc- +‎ -emia.

Noun

glycemia (countable and uncountable, plural glycemias)

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.
   • 1988, H Negoro, JE Morley, MJ Rosenthal, “Utility of serum fructosamine as a measure of glycemia in young and old diabetic and non-diabetic subjects”, in Am J Med, volume 85, number 3, pages 360–364:

     Currently used methods to determine glycemia have certain disadvantages, including cost, heavy labor involvement, and storage problems. Determination of serum fructosamine levels, on the other hand, offers several potential advantages over these current measures. Our goal was to evaluate the utility of serum fructosamine as a measure of glycemia. […] Fructosamine levels were measured in 145 normal and diabetic subjects aged 20 to 86 years. The measured levels were then related to standard measures of glycemia, including glycosylated hemoglobin, glycosylated albumin, and fasting glucose. The effects of chronic illness and medications known to alter glucose tolerance were also investigated. […] Assay of serum fructosamine appears to be comparable to that of HbA1C for determination of glycemic control.

   • 2019, B MokhlesiKA TempleAH Tjadenet al., “The association of sleep disturbances with glycemia and obesity in youth at risk for or with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes”, in Pediatr Diabetes, volume 20, number 8, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1056–1063:

     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.

   • 2019, Z GvozdanovićN FarčićH Placentoet al., “Diet education as a success factor of glycemia regulation in diabetes patients: a prospective study”, in Int J Environ Res Public Health, volume 16, number 20, →DOI, →PMID:

     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.

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

Synonyms

• glycosemia

Coordinate terms

• (CSF counterpart) glycorrhachia
• (types of biometallic cation concentration in blood) calcemia, cupremia, kalemia, magnesemia, natremia

Derived terms

• dysglycemia (dysglycemic), such as aglycemia (aglycemic), hyperglycemia (hyperglycemic), or hypoglycemia (hypoglycemic)
• euglycemia (euglycemic), that is, normoglycemia (normoglycemic)
• glycemic

Translations

presence of an unusual amount of glucose in the blood

• Catalan: glucèmia (ca) f, glicèmia
• Danish: glykæmi
• French: glycémie (fr) f
• German: Glykämie
• Greek: γλυκαιμία (el) f (glykaimía)
• Icelandic: sykurdreyri m
• Portuguese: glicemia (pt) f
• Spanish: glucemia (es) f, glicemia (es) f
• Swedish: glykemi