Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements

We studied the time course of serum insulin level in a patient who injected large amounts of regular insulin in an attempted suicide. A 58‐year‐old woman attempted suicide by subcutaneously injecting herself with 2400 U regular insulin. On arrival, the serum glucose level was 2.4 mmol/L (44 mg/dL) a...

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Main Authors:	Hiromine, Yoshihisa, Kawabata, Yumiko, Yamauchi, Takaaki, Noso, Shinsuke, Babaya, Naru, Harada, Takeshi, Ito, Hiroyuki, Ikegami, Hiroshi
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019248/

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spelling	pubmed-40192482014-05-19 Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements Hiromine, Yoshihisa Kawabata, Yumiko Yamauchi, Takaaki Noso, Shinsuke Babaya, Naru Harada, Takeshi Ito, Hiroyuki Ikegami, Hiroshi Articles We studied the time course of serum insulin level in a patient who injected large amounts of regular insulin in an attempted suicide. A 58‐year‐old woman attempted suicide by subcutaneously injecting herself with 2400 U regular insulin. On arrival, the serum glucose level was 2.4 mmol/L (44 mg/dL) and the serum insulin level was 40,000 pmol/L (5700 μIU/mL). The serum insulin level was high, with a maximum of 110,000 pmol/L (16,000 μIU/mL) at 13 h after injection, followed by an initial rapid decrease and a subsequent slow decrease, with hyperinsulinemia lasting as long as 5 days after injection. (J Diabetes Invest, doi: 10.1111/j.2040‐1124.2012.00211.x, 2012) Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012-03-27 2012-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4019248/ /pubmed/24843608 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2040-1124.2012.00211.x Text en © 2012 Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
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author	Hiromine, Yoshihisa Kawabata, Yumiko Yamauchi, Takaaki Noso, Shinsuke Babaya, Naru Harada, Takeshi Ito, Hiroyuki Ikegami, Hiroshi
spellingShingle	Hiromine, Yoshihisa Kawabata, Yumiko Yamauchi, Takaaki Noso, Shinsuke Babaya, Naru Harada, Takeshi Ito, Hiroyuki Ikegami, Hiroshi Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements
author_facet	Hiromine, Yoshihisa Kawabata, Yumiko Yamauchi, Takaaki Noso, Shinsuke Babaya, Naru Harada, Takeshi Ito, Hiroyuki Ikegami, Hiroshi
author_sort	Hiromine, Yoshihisa
title	Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements
title_short	Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements
title_full	Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements
title_fullStr	Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements
title_full_unstemmed	Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements
title_sort	prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 u regular insulin in a suicide attempt: time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements
description	We studied the time course of serum insulin level in a patient who injected large amounts of regular insulin in an attempted suicide. A 58‐year‐old woman attempted suicide by subcutaneously injecting herself with 2400 U regular insulin. On arrival, the serum glucose level was 2.4 mmol/L (44 mg/dL) and the serum insulin level was 40,000 pmol/L (5700 μIU/mL). The serum insulin level was high, with a maximum of 110,000 pmol/L (16,000 μIU/mL) at 13 h after injection, followed by an initial rapid decrease and a subsequent slow decrease, with hyperinsulinemia lasting as long as 5 days after injection. (J Diabetes Invest, doi: 10.1111/j.2040‐1124.2012.00211.x, 2012)
publisher	Blackwell Publishing Ltd
publishDate	2012
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4019248/
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Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: Time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements

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