Annual C-peptides in type 1 diabetic patients? How bizarre. I wonder how
many rises he/she will find?
However, C-peptide response to IV glucagon can be a useful way of helping
distinguish type 2 from type 1 patients either as adults or (increasingly)
children.
Eric
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From: TICKNER TREVOR (RM1) Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust
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Subject: Insulin and C peptide usage
> We have a paediatrician who has produced a protocol for monitoring
> adolescent diabetics annually with C peptide.
>
> He has also asked for insulin measurements as an aid to diagnosing type 2
> diabetes in an 11 year old, BMI>99th centile with a great grandmother who
> has 'borderline diabetes' but has reached her 99th year!
>
> Does anyone know of any evidence that might support these requests?
> Alternatively your collective views would help us formulate local
protocols
> and would be gratefully received.
>
> Trevor Tickner,
>
> Norwich
>
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