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What Is the C-Peptide Test for Diabetes?

What Is C-Peptide? Why It’s Done How It’s Performed What’s Next The C-peptide test is a way of estimating how much of the hormone insulin your body creates. This test can help doctors determine what ...
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Single C-Peptide As Good As Full Mixed-Meal Tolerance Test

Fructose Consumption Impairs Insulin Sensitivity For children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, the 90-minute mixed-meal tolerance test (MMTT)-stimulated C-peptide (CP; 90CP) is a highly sensitive ...
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No Improvement in C-Peptide Levels With GAD-Alum

(HealthDay News) – Treating children with type 1 diabetes with the 65-kD isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65) formulated with alum (GAD-alum) does not significantly change levels of ...
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C-Peptide Test Should Be the Norm After Type 1 Diabetes

LIVERPOOL — C-peptide testing a few years after a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes should be a routine procedure as it can help pinpoint occasional patients who have been misdiagnosed and actually have ...
Medscape

Type 1 Diabetes: Simpler C-Peptide Test Fine for Children

A single blood test measuring C-peptide at 90 minutes after a mixed-meal challenge was a sensitive and specific measure of endogenous insulin secretion among children with new-onset type 1 diabetes, ...