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Carbohydrate Tolerance and Insulin Responses in Obstructive Jaundice
- Publication Year :
- 1974
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Abstract
- Twenty-three patients with obstructive jaundice were given a 50-g oral glucose tolerance test (G.T.T.) and an insulin stimulation test with oral glucose and intravenous tolbutamide and glucagon. An abnormal glucose response was as common in patients with carcinoma of the pancreas (seven out of 12) as in patients with “other” causes of obstructive jaundice (six out of 11). Though both groups had a low and delayed insulin response the insulin levels were significantly lower in patients with carcinoma of the pancreas. After the insulin stimulation test patients with obstructive jaundice who did not have carcinoma of the pancreas had a greater and significantly different insulin response from patients with pancreatic cancer. There was, however, considerable overlapping between the results of individual patients in the two groups.
- Subjects :
- Blood Glucose
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Tolbutamide
Glucagon
Diagnosis, Differential
Cholestasis
Internal medicine
Pancreatic cancer
medicine
Carcinoma
Humans
Insulin
General Environmental Science
Aged
Glucose tolerance test
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General Engineering
General Medicine
Papers and Originals
Glucose Tolerance Test
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Pancreatic Neoplasms
Endocrinology
medicine.anatomical_structure
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Female
business
Pancreas
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....03e953ad669fd697d53e2439d827ebf4