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When should people with diabetes measure their ketones?
If you are taking insulin, and especially if you have type 1 diabetes, it is a good idea to keep some “ketostix” with you to test for ketones when your blood glucose is high for no obvious reason.
admin | Jan 25, 2011 | Comments 0
What are ketones?
If people who do not have diabetes eat fewer calories than their body needs, their pancreas will stop pushing insulin into their blood.
admin | Jan 25, 2011 | Comments 0
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