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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.

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.