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Insulin Delivery

There are different ways to inject insulin into your body; this is called insulin delivery.  Syringes, pens, pumps, and jet injectors give many persons with diabetes options for their insulin delivery.

What You Need to Know about Insulin

Toxicologists, scientists, and pharmaceutical researchers have developed different types of insulin derived from and formulated with other compounds.  Doctors and patients have many different types of insulin drugs to choose from including delivery methods and devices.

Blood Glucose Control

 

Symptoms of Hyperglycemia

The basic defect in all patients with diabetes is the decreased ability of insulin to induce cells of the body to remove glucose (sugar) molecules from the blood.  Whether this decreased insulin activity is due to a decreased amount of insulin produced (type 1 diabetes), or from the insensitivity of the cells to a n

Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is much less common than type 2 diabetes and typically affects younger individuals. Type 1 diabetes usually begins before age 40, although there are exceptions. In the United States, the peak age at diagnosis is around 14. Type 1 diabetes is associated with deficiency (or lack) of insulin.

Diabetes: What is Insulin?

Insulin is a hormone.

Assessing How Well Diabetes is Controlled

There are two common ways that physicians assess how well diabetes is controlled:  [1] Frequent measurements of blood glucose, and [2] measurement of glycohemoglobin (A1c).  Each method has its good and bad points, but combined they give a

Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 Diabetes is more common than Type 1 Diabetes.

Normal Regulation of Blood Glucose

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