Impact of routine clinic measurement of serum C‐peptide in people with a clinician‐diagnosis of type 1 diabetes

The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the routine use of serum C-peptide in an out-patient clinic setting on individuals with a clinician-diagnosis of type 1 diabetes.In this single-centre study, individuals with type 1 diabetes of at least 3 years duration were offered random serum C-peptide testing at routine clinic review. A C-peptide ≥200 pmol/L prompted further evaluation of the individual using a diagnostic algorithm that...