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‘Before insulin, diabetes was a death sentence’: The miracle that two Canadians gave the world 100 years ago is still saving lives
Insulin almost literally resurrected the dead, since people were rising from diabetic comas.”To many, it was a miracle. “And a lot of the focus now is to try to prevent type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. “When women are pregnant some will develop elevated blood glucose levels or gestational diabetes,” explained clinical researcher and endocrinologist Dr. Ravi Retnakaran. Women who experience gestational diabetes are seven to 10 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes in the future. There are a lot of things to be learned when we reflect upon 100 years of insulin.
Source: thestar November 14, 2021 21:01 UTC
