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Eating alot of food (i.e mainly sugars and carbohydrates) can cause your blood glucose levels to rise. this can be seen shortly after eating a meal, however this is usually kept in check by your pancreas via the release of insulin and decreased release of glucagon.

Insulin is responsible for increasing the rate of storage of sugars, fats and amino acids into your liver, muscles and adipose tissue. thus if there is a problem with the regulation of insulin (ie. Diabetes Mellitus type 1 and 2 where the body does not respond to high levels of glucose/ the pancreas cannot release insulin despite the body recognising the high glucose levels) then this can cause unsafe levels of glucose in your blood.

Another reason would be high/uncontrolled levels of glucagon in the blood (hyperglucagonemia) cause by tumours of the pancreas which causes increased release of glucagon, and thus increased release of glucos from the muscles, adipose tissue and liver. this is especially true in the case of tumours of the alpha cells of the pancreas which produce glucagon. however this is not very common.

Drugs like Beta blockers and corticosteroids can also lead to hyperglycemia, and illness such as cushings disease, and stroke can also cause it.

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