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COPYRIGHT 2004 International Medical News Group
QUEBEC CITY -- A 12-week course of intense insulin therapy appears to restore pancreatic function in some adolescents with type 2 diabetes, allowing complete discontinuation of therapy with maintenance of stable glycemic control, according to Canadian researchers.
"Since we are dealing with children and adolescents, whose blood sugars have not been high for long, this approach can rapidly eliminate glucose toxicity, and we think their beta-cell function is then restored," Elizabeth Sellers, M.D., told this newspaper.
Dr. Sellers and her associates at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, have had several years of...
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