@article{ref1,
title="Prolonged hyperinsulinemia after subcutaneous injection of 2400 U regular insulin in a suicide attempt: time course of serum insulin with frequent measurements",
journal="Journal of diabetes investigation",
year="2012",
author="Hiromine, Yoshihisa and Kawabata, Yumiko and Yamauchi, Takaaki and Noso, Shinsuke and Babaya, Naru and Harada, Takeshi and Ito, Hiroyuki and Ikegami, Hiroshi",
volume="3",
number="5",
pages="468-470",
abstract="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).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2040-1116",
doi="10.1111/j.2040-1124.2012.00211.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2040-1124.2012.00211.x"
}