Early post-prandial hyperglycemic response: from case reports of insulin-dependent diabetics evaluated with an artificial pancreas
Sinagra, D.; La Sala, M.S.; Cangemi, C.; Amato, M.P.
Bollettino della Societa Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale 60(5): 913-918
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-8771 PMID: 6466472 Document Number: 232748
In order to define the after-meal glycaemic response in diabetic subjects, we studied it in 20 insulin-dependent diabetic patients by automatic control using artificial beta-cell. We observed a different behaviour of blood glucose and of the consequent insulin requirement at the meals: in two subjects an early and excessive rise of blood glucose values at the meal was shown, not rapidly normalizable by artificial beta-cell. It should support, in our opinion, in these subjects, an increased neuro-entero-hormonal activity on endocrine pancreas production and a subsequent enhancement of hepatic glucose output.