Altered Mental Status
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| Form of sugar that provides the body's basic source of energy | Glucose |
| Condition brought about by decreased insulin production; also called "sugar diabetes" or simply "diabetes" | Diabetes Mellitus |
| Hormone produced by the pancreas or taken as a medication by many diabetes that aids in utilizing glucose | Insulin |
| Uncontrolled muscular movements | Convulsions |
| Low Blood Sugar | Hypoglycemia |
| Prolonged seizure or when a person suffers 2 or more convulsions seizure with out regaining full conciousness | Status Epilepticus |
| Medical condition that sometimes causes seizures | Seizure |
| High Blood Sugar | Hyperglycemia |
| Sudden change in sensation, behavior,or movement that can, in its moset sever form, produce convulsions | Epilepsy |
| Blockage or bursting of a major blood vessel supplying the brain; also called a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) | Stroke |
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