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Does insulin pump therapy cause weight gain?
Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses weight management and the impact insulin pump therapy can have in relation to weight.
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Does pump therapy cause weight gain? Not necessarily. I think pump therapy actually reduces weight because the total amount of insulin that you use through pump is, is one by 10th of the insulin they use through injectable therapy because it's a constant infusion. So overall, which we call total daily dose, which essentially mean how much you need within 24 hours is a lot less with pumps. And that's the whole point of having insulin pump is to reduce the daily requirement of people who need to be on huge amount of insulin. So you actually achieve weight loss with pump therapy.
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