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Can you become a diabetic in just one month?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Yes: If it is due to beta-cell failure in the pancreas, you convert as soon as Insulin production stops. If it is "adult onset, " then likely "pre-diabetes" has existed for a while, the #s are now bad enough to warrant the diagnosis.

Answered 6/25/2014

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