Definition of "hyperglycemic" [hyperglycemic]

• Having excessively high blood sugar. (adjective)

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• "The only question mark at all on exercise is whether very intense exercise may dangerously lower glucose in patients on insulin or other hyperglycemic drugs (which simply calls for adjusting medication or popping some glucose before exercising) or, paradoxically, induce a stress reaction causing a glucose spike."
• "For one of the recently-developed oral hyperglycemic drugs saxagliptin we are running a very large study, 16,500 people at 800 centers, with a leading cardiology group in Boston."
• "The only question mark at all on exercise is whether very intense exercise may dangerously lower glucose in patients on insulin or other hyperglycemic drugs which simply calls for adjusting medication or popping some glucose before exercising or, paradoxically, induce a stress reaction causing a glucose spike."