Remission in Diabetes

Severe diabetes in remission: a Singapore's perspective.

INTRODUCTION Diabetic ketoacidosis is generally thought to be the classical presentation of individuals with Type 1 diabetes. Clinicians are beginning to see individuals with atypical diabetes presenting with severe hyperglycaemia associated with or without ketosis and after the initial period of intensive insulin therapy, becoming non-insulin dependent and remaining in remission for years. So ...

Remission of diabetes mellitus during pregnancy.

Two cases are reported in which a remission of diabetes was sustained throughout pregnancy. This seemed to be due in part to improved beta-cell function consequent on restoration of normoglycaemia before pregnancy, and in part to an increase in insulin sensitivity during pregnancy, which in the first case disappeared very rapidly after delivery.

Beating type 2 diabetes into remission.

Plasma insulin during remission in juvenile diabetes mellitus.

Three juvenile diabetics in partial remission were studied before and after the recurrence of overt diabetes. The remissions were partial because glucose tolerance never returned to normal. However, it improved sufficiently to cause the discontinuance of insulin therapy for at least four months.The insulin output in response to double glucose tolerance tests was increased during remission. The ...

Remission of diabetes mellitus in cats with diabetic ketoacidosis.

BACKGROUND Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) has long been considered a key clinical feature of type-1 diabetes mellitus (DM) in humans although. An increasing number of cases of ketoacidosis have been reported in people with type-2 DM. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Cats initially diagnosed with DKA can achieve remission from diabetes. Cats with DKA and diabetic remission are more likely to have been admin...