A plugged insulin pump catheter in type 1 diabetics on SGLT2 inhibitors may not be immediately recognized due to glucose excretion masking hyperglycemia. — Whalespan
A plugged insulin pump catheter in type 1 diabetics on SGLT2 inhibitors may not be immediately recognized due to glucose excretion masking hyperglycemia.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“it creates a situation of what I would call cognitive dissonance where people just don't understand that they're in trouble and there may be a delay in between when they when they had to plug in their catheter or some other an interruption of insulin infusion and when they actually end up recognizing it”
“if the glucose lowering agent is essentially dragging all that glucose out into your urine essentially what what it does is it's dragging away glucose which is the primary biomarker of life threatening insulin deficiency elevated blood glucose is the primary biomarker of life threatening innocence efficiency of people who live a type-1”