High blood sugar levels can put you at risk of type 2 diabetes, heart problems and kidney failure and is mainly caused by not exercising and having a poor diet.
Scientists have engineered a modified insulin that reduces its activity at low glucose levels. This glucose-responsive insulin could prevent people with diabetes from experiencing dangerously low ...
Some diabetics develop a ‘fear of hypos,’ a specific, extreme fear – as opposed to an appropriate concern about hypoglycemia – that their blood glucose levels will go too low.
Novo Nordisk scientists have synthesised an insulin molecule that specifically targets glucose in blood, instead of other sugars like fructose, to aid treatment of all types of diabetes.