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Course: Understanding Insulin
How the body decreases blood glucose concentrations after eating
Whilst this course has been primarily created for healthcare professionals to help reduce concerns around prescribing and managing insulin, we hope that it is of interest to people with diabetes …
Goodbye!
And thank you from all of the ‘Understanding Insulin’ team. We do hope that you have enjoyed your journey with us! We will not be offering mentoring on the course …
Different types of diabetes
As we have learned so far, Carlos has type 1 diabetes and Seema has type 2 diabetes. To recap: In type 1 diabetes, there is autoimmune mediated damage to the …
Key points summary
This week … You have learnt that there are multiple factors that could explain why the action of insulin on lowering blood glucose appears to be suboptimal. Prior to adjusting …
Diagnosing Seema who has type 2 diabetes
We will now introduce you to the second of our patients, Seema. Seema is 60 years old, originally from India but now living in the UK, and has type 2 diabetes. …
What happens when there is insufficient insulin or insulin resistance?
Type 2 diabetes occurs when not enough insulin is produced by the body for it to function properly, or when the body’s cells do not react to insulin – known …
Key points summary
This week … You have learnt that diabetes (step 3.2) and hyperkalaemia (step 3.5) are the main clinical situations in which the use of insulin can be justified. Insulin is …
Diagnosing Carlos who has type 1 diabetes
We would like to introduce you to the first of our patients, Carlos. Carlos is 25 years old, lives in Spain and has type 1 diabetes. Let us find out …
What happens when insulin production ceases?
Insulin production ceases and Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body is no longer able to produce insulin because of autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic cells that produce it. It …
What is insulin and why is it important?
When we eat food, the carbohydrates (sugars) that we eat are broken down in our digestive system to produce glucose. This glucose has an important role to play in our …
Key points summary
This week … You have learnt in detail about the key physiological processes involved in regulating blood glucose concentrations in healthy individuals, and how lack of insulin or insulin resistance …
Diabetes: the basics
So what exactly is diabetes? and what is insulin’s relationship to it? To find out how diabetes develops, the ways it affects the body and how insulin is the key …
Key points summary
This week … You have learnt about how insulin acts as a messenger, telling the body to take up any extra glucose in the blood (step 1.5). This helps keep …
Join the online community
We’d love to find out more about you and why you have joined us on this course. In this step, we are going to ask you to do two things: …