title: Urinary insulin excretion rate: an index of free insulinaemia in insulin-dependent diabetics.
abstract: In 25 insulin-dependent diabetics, 14 managed by conventional insulin injection treatment (CIT) and 11 treated by continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII), there was a highly significant correlation between urinary insulin excretion rate (IER) per 1.73 m2 and mean serum free insulin concentration (r = 0.73, p less than 0.001), measured over a 24 h period. Urinary IER and mean daily serum free insulin levels were significantly higher in diabetics than in non-diabetics. CSII-treated patients had significantly lower mean 24 h plasma glucose levels than CIT-treated patients despite similar values of urinary IER and mean daily serum free insulin in the two groups. Urinary IER may be a useful indicator of average insulinaemia in large scale studies, avoiding the problems of multiple blood sampling and immunoassay in the presence of anti-insulin antibodies.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood / Q000627:therapeutic use / Q000652:urine*; D007332:Insulin Infusion Systems; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007328:Insulin