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Thread: Type 1 daily insulin units/Kg

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04-23-2008, 12:55 PM

BlueSky

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Originally Posted by Scratch

.... Type 1 Diabetes in Children ... - Google Book Search

If I read that page correctly, it looks like that book says that for adults without diabetes, normal native I guess insulin production is on the level of .5 u/kg per day. But for adult diabetics, the sensitivity factor is more like .7 - .8 u/kg per day.

That looks like a very a useful book. But I wonder why they distinguish between the insulin needs of normal adults and adults with type 1 diabetes. I can see no logical reason for an adult T1 to be more insulin resistant than a normal adult.