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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
How do steroids like prednisone affect diabetes?
Steroids can make the liver less sensitive to insulin because they cause it to carry on releasing sugar, even if the pancreas is also releasing insulin. This continued release of sugar triggers the pancreas to stop producing the hormone.
If this process continues, it causes insulin resistance. The cells no longer respond to insulin, regardless of whether the body produces it or a person injects it to control diabetes.
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Steroids can make the liver less sensitive to insulin because they cause it to carry on releasing sugar, even if the pancreas is also releasing insulin. This continued release of sugar triggers the pancreas to stop producing the hormone.
If this process continues, it causes insulin resistance. The cells no longer respond to insulin, regardless of whether the body produces it or a person injects it to control diabetes.
Prednisone and diabetes: Connection, risks, interactions
The steroid prednisone can affect how the body reacts to insulin. This article explains the link between steroids and diabetes and the associated risk factors.
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