People are always wondering what are normal values for blood sugar and
insulin. Here's a study of normal people and people with PCOS, both
normal weight and obese that gives some graphs showing what "normal"
looks like for both groups.
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/15/6/1266
Scroll down to Figure 1 to see the chart giving these values.
GLUCOSE: After 75 gm of glucose the thin and obese controls (people
without PCOS, in this study) top out at 126 mg/dl at half an hour, and
then the thin people drop back to under 100 mg/dl at one hour, while the
obese normals drop only a tiny bit by an hour. Both groups are around
100 mg/dl at 2 hours.
INSULIN: at 1/2 hour normal thin people peak slightly under 50 mU/while
obese normal people peak half an hour later (at an hour) at around 60 mU/L.
Also, Figure 2 gives the relationship of insulin and C-peptide
measurements, which do not correspond to each other as strictly as we
have been told they do. So assuming, as my doctor does, that a C-peptide
test is as good as an insulin test may be inaccurate. Interesting.
--Jenny
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