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A Glance at Insulin in Diabetic Kidney Disease

Patients with chronic Diabetes Mellitus (DM) who have uncontrolled blood sugar and those with blood sugar difficult to control with diabetes pills are certainly familiar with the term insulin injection. Insulin is a normal hormone in human body, which is produced and released by pancreatic cells in sufficient quantities to help the cells in our bodies absorb sugar in the blood. With insulin, our body is able convert sugar into energy with minimal metabolic waste. In a person with DM, due to several reasons, the amount of insulin the body produces is inadequate to carry out its functions, both in quantity and/or quality. Some of the possible causes are damage to pancreatic beta cells (insulin-producing cells) as in type I diabetes and the inability of the body cells to recognize the hormone insulin as in type II diabetes.