Insulin Therapy For Type 1 Diabetes: Diabetes
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Insulin therapy for type 1 diabetes
Before 1921, the year that Sir Frederick G. Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin, children who developed type 1 diabetes usually died within a few years of being diagnosed. Although insulin is not a cure, its discovery was the first major breakthrough in diabetes treatment, and it remains the primary therapy for type 1 diabetes.
Insulin is essential to metabolism and good health (see "How sugar is metabolized"), and if it isn't manufactured by the beta cells in your pancreas, it must be replaced.
| Last updated: | January 23, 2007 |
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