Pancreas Essentials
The pancreas maintains the body’s blood glucose (sugar) balance.
Primary hormones of the pancreas include insulin and glucagon, and both regulate blood glucose.
Diabetes is the most common disorder associated with the pancreas.
The purpose of the Patients' Guide to Insulin is to educate patients, parents, and caregivers about insulin treatment of diabetes. By reviewing this information, you’re taking an important step to learn about diabetes and how insulin controls the disease to help you live a healthier life.
In diagnosing diabetes, physicians primarily depend upon the results of specific glucose tests. However, test results are just part of the information that goes into the diagnosis of type 1 or ty