glycemia

Or gly·cae·mi·a

[glahy-see-mee-uh]

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. the presence of glucose in the blood.

Other Word Forms

• glycemic adjective
• glycaemic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of glycemia¹

First recorded in 1900–05; glyc- + -emia

Example Sentences

“We discovered that the patients who exhibited higher amounts of Akkermansia were the patients who had a very strong improvement in cholesterol, in glycemia, in waist to hip ratio and also a reduction in different parameters in both cardiovascular disease and risk factors.”

Read more on Time

The authors found that adding glycemia measures to conventional cardiovascular risk assessment provided little additional prognostic information.

Read more on Forbes

One somewhat surprising finding was that four different measures of glycemia independently resulted in a  J-shaped curve of cardiovascular risk — although lower glycemia levels were generally associated with lower levels of risk, at the extreme lowest level there was a rebound in risk.

Read more on Forbes

This finding “should encourage further studies to test whether very low glycemia levels are markers of ill health,” write the authors.

Read more on Forbes

“This finding challenges suggestions that postload glucose levels predict CVD incidence more strongly than do other glycemia measures,” they say.

Read more on Forbes