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Can people who don’t have diabetes get hypoglycemia?

Yes, they can, but it is much rarer than most people think. “Hypoglycemia” is often over-diagnosed in people who don’t have diabetes. Here’s how it can happen. People get symptoms where they feel weak, sweaty, dizzy, hun…

When is it helpful to measure the C-peptide level in a person’s blood?

There are a couple of steps to making insulin inside your pancreas.
The first step is that your pancreas makes a big molecule called
proinsulin.