Word: insulin
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Researchers have found that low birth weight in mice can hinder the pancreas’ ability to produce enough insulin, causing an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical School...
...first factor is insulin resistance—the body makes insulin but doesn’t respond to it. The second problem is inadequate insulin production in the pancreas,” she said...
...Joslin study, which was published in the March edition of the journal Diabetes, found a link between low birth weight and the second cause of diabetes: inadequate insulin production...
Since low birth weight impairs the pancreas’ ability to secrete insulin and regulate blood sugar levels, it is important to prevent insulin resistance...
...catheters, correctly sized breathing tubes and orthopedic supplies, including casts used to treat bone fractures caused by shrapnel from high explosives. Items had to be reused with minimal sterilization or done without, he said. Glucose strips, used to measure blood sugar, were chronically in short supply, leading to haphazard insulin dosing for diabetics. On occasion, said Parrson, internists and he and other nonphysicians carried out amputations and other procedures usually performed by surgeons. "I took off an ankle and a lower leg," he recalls. "There was no one else, and if it was death or amputation, you just...