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I’m a 42 year old black male with type 2 diabetes. I’m currently using a 70/30 insulin premix. Is there a formula (i.e., a sliding scale) to calculate the units of insulin required to counteract a given blood glucose level when blood glucose is checked periodically?

Can diabetes effect a child’s height?

I have a 5 year old, African American who has Acanthosis Nigricans and insulin resistance. Does this mean she will get Type 2 diabetes and is there anything I can do to prevent the possibility?

I am wondering if there is an average life expectancy for an otherwise healthy type 1 diabetic patient.

I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when I was 15 years old. I was wondering if exposure to Dioxin could have caused the positive test when I was young?

My six year old niece has had Juvenile Diabetes since age two. On occasion she has fits with extreme anger and self abuse. Could these fits be linked to a chemical imbalance due to the diabetes?

My daughter is 18 and has Type 1 diabetes. She has been noncompliant with this disease. We recently switched her doctor to an adult endocrinologist. He is very unhappy with her A1c which is 12. He wants to put her Avandia to see if her body will react to the insulin better.

I am 28 and a type 2 diabetic. I am planning to become pregnant and I want to know if my glucose levels need to be in the normal range or the “pregnancy range” while I am trying to conceive.

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