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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.
admin | Jan 04, 2011 | Comments 0
How does pregnancy cause diabetes that goes away after the baby is born?
When a woman is pregnant, her body needs to make enough insulin
to support her extra weight and her growing baby. By the time a
woman is in her last three months of pregnancy, her body will need
to make between three and four times as much insulin as it did before she became pregnant.
admin | Jan 03, 2011 | Comments 0