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Confirmation requires capillary blood glucose measurement during symptomatic episodes, ideally demonstrating glucose levels below 3.0 mmol/L with symptom resolution following carbohydrate intake (Whipple's triad)

The key periconception safety boundaries remain explicit contraception during treatment, drug-specific discontinuation, and completion of the recommended washout period before conception attempts

The eureka moment, as Habener puts it, was when they discovered that in the larger precursor protein proglucagon, there was a signal peptide, an intervening peptide, a peptide that was homologous to mammalian glucagon, and then a second GLP-related peptide later revealed to be GLP-1

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