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<blockquote data-quote="markd" data-source="post: 237360" data-attributes="member: 13859"><p>A friend of mine has just been diagnosed with T2 (great timing just before Christmas, huh?).</p><p></p><p>His fasting is consistently just high enough to be diagnosed, but his post meal figures seem to be OK - at least in the week or so of testing he's been doing, always around 4.5 at two hours.</p><p></p><p>He's not had an OGTT (yet) that may happen on a future visit, for now, he's been diagnosed just on the fasting levels.</p><p></p><p>So, the question he asked me, to which I didn't have a ready answer, is what is the prime cause of his T2 - is it insufficient insulin being produced, or insulin resistance that prevents him using it properly (I copped out and said maybe a bit of both...) He's 45 and a bit overweight, maybe 3 stone at 6ft-ish tall.</p><p>With some people, it is the fasting that goes out of control first, with others, it is the post meal - so I'm simplistically thinking one is related to a knackered pancreas and the other to IR - but which is which - or is it not as simple as that?</p><p></p><p>And Merry Christmas - or what is left of it. Well, Happy New Year anyway...</p><p></p><p>MarkD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="markd, post: 237360, member: 13859"] A friend of mine has just been diagnosed with T2 (great timing just before Christmas, huh?). His fasting is consistently just high enough to be diagnosed, but his post meal figures seem to be OK - at least in the week or so of testing he's been doing, always around 4.5 at two hours. He's not had an OGTT (yet) that may happen on a future visit, for now, he's been diagnosed just on the fasting levels. So, the question he asked me, to which I didn't have a ready answer, is what is the prime cause of his T2 - is it insufficient insulin being produced, or insulin resistance that prevents him using it properly (I copped out and said maybe a bit of both...) He's 45 and a bit overweight, maybe 3 stone at 6ft-ish tall. With some people, it is the fasting that goes out of control first, with others, it is the post meal - so I'm simplistically thinking one is related to a knackered pancreas and the other to IR - but which is which - or is it not as simple as that? And Merry Christmas - or what is left of it. Well, Happy New Year anyway... MarkD [/QUOTE]
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