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Not only does it lower the blood sugar but it is the only Diabetes medication that has been shown to reduce the complications of diabetes. That is why it is usually the first choice of medications.
An additional benefit is that if it is used alone it is much less prone to cause abnormally low blood sugars than other diabetes medications. This is why it usually can be safely taken by people without diabetes for other purposes such as polycystic ovarian syndrome. When it is combined with additional diabetes medications it can contribute to low sugars.
It should be used with caution in people with heart failure, kidney, and liver disease. It should usually be briefly stopped if people are having radiologic studies done where contrast is going to be injected.
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∙ 13y agoyes insulin lowers blood sugar levels by converting glucose to glycogen which is stored in the liver and by increasing cell permeability to glucose.
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∙ 9y agoYes, metformin is a type 2 diabetes medication. I definitely know about because my husband is taking this tablets twice a day.This medicine helps to control sugar level in your blood.
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Can low blood sugars lead to diabetes?
High insulin levels occur in an attempt to counter high levels of sugar. Type II diabetes is caused by insulin receptors on cells not having much of a response to insulin. Hence, more insulin is released in an attempt to lower the blood sugar levels. This is why high insulin levels are a symptom of Type II diabetes, not a cause.
How are insulin and blood sugar related?
insulin helps transport the blood sugar into cells were sugar is needed. insulin is related to blood sugar cause insulin can lower blood sugar level.
How insulin keep you healthy?
insulin is a hormone that controls your blood sugar levels. without insulin, your blood sugar levels could be too high or too low.
Which hormone lowers blood sugar levels by increasing the rate of entry glucose into the cell?
Insulin and glucagon are two hormones that lower the blood sugar level
What is the feedback mechanism of insulin?
An increase in blood sugar levels cause the release of the hormone insulin by the pancreas. Insulin then lowers this blood sugar level restoring it to original non-lethal blood glucose levels.
What does the pancreatic islets secrete in reponse to low blood sugar?
Insulin is secreted by the pancreas to control blood sugar levels.
Does lack of insulin result in high blood sugar levels?
It can.
Is secreted in response to high blood sugar levels?
insulin
The pancreas maintain blood sugar levels in the blood in doing so the pancreas helps to maintain?
Close. Insulin is produced in the pancrease to regulate glucose levels in the blood.
How is blood sugar regualted?
The pancreas produces insulin which helps digest and regulate blood sugar levels.
What is insulin dependent gestational diabetes?
Insulin dependent gestational diabetes is diabetes in pregnancy that must be treated with insulin. Some women may have milder cases and can lower their blood sugar through diet and exercise. Others need extra insulin to combat high blood sugar levels in pregnancy.
When blood sugar levels drop what happens to the insulin and glucagon levels?
They get realy sick
