{"id":13572,"date":"2014-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/the-dawn-phenomenon\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:04:35","slug":"morning-hyperglycemia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/diabetes\/diabetes-management\/hyperglycemia\/morning-hyperglycemia\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning hyperglycemia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Dawn Phenomenon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The dawn phenomenon is a natural process that occurs at the end of a night\u2019s sleep when your body releases hormones, such as cortisol, adrenalin and growth hormone, to prepare the body for awakening, among other tasks. These hormones have a counter-regulatory action on insulin, and they encourage the liver to secrete glucose, both of which can increase the level of blood glucose (sugar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, it is possible to wake up in the morning with an elevated blood glucose (sugar) level even though it was within target values when you went to bed on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your medication might need to be adjusted to correct this problem. If so, discuss this with your doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dawn Phenomenon The dawn phenomenon is a natural process that occurs at the end of a night\u2019s sleep when your body releases hormones, such as cortisol, adrenalin and growth hormone, to prepare the body for awakening, among other tasks. These hormones have a counter-regulatory action on insulin, and they encourage the liver to secrete&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13571,"parent":13574,"menu_order":124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"9690,12546,12718,12823,10933,11773","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13572","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29379,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13572\/revisions\/29379"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diabete.qc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}