Adult Onset Diabetes (Type 2) - Overview
Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and the most common endocrine disorder. Type 2 Diabetes is the most common type and occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or if the body cannot use the insulin properly. Type 2 Diabetes affects millions of adults and children, and many more who remain undiagnosed.
UAB’s Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Diabetes Clinic (MCDC) provides services unique in Alabama and available at only a few centers in the nation. It is staffed by endocrinologists, ophthalmologists, orthopaedic surgeons, nutritionists and social workers to give our patients the best experience possible.
Services Performed
The diabetic clinics at UAB test and treat diabetes and its complications with a multi disciplinary approach.
Tests:
- Assessment of beta-cell function
- insulin sensitivity
- counter-regulatory responses to hypoglycemia
- Oral Glucose Tolerance Testing (oGTT)
- Frequently Sampled Intravenous Glucose Tolerance Test (fsIVGT)
- Glucagon Stimulated C-Peptide
- Mixed-Meal Tolerance Test
- Insulin Tolerance Test
- Hyperinsulinemic Euglycemic Glucose Clamp
- Hyperglycemic Glucose Clamp
- Hyperinsulinemic Stepped Hypoglycemic Clamp
- Many other dynamic endocrine tests
Other tests:
- Pharmacokinetic
- Metabolic
- Energy expenditure
- Anthropometric
- Body composition studies
- Performance of percutaneous fat
- Muscle biopsy
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