Earn CPD credits from a series of online exams covering hypoglycaemia, impact of poor glucose control and effective insulin therapy
Insulin therapy is often required, but this effective therapy can be improved. By Dr Paula Hensler...of management are often debated. Eventually most patients with type-2 diabetes require insulin to achieve ... specifically at diabetes care in primary care. They found that while insulin is the most effective treatment in type-2 diabetes, its use remains challenging and time consuming, especially at the time of insulin ...
Metformin and insulin in type 2 diabetes BMJ 2012; 344: e1771 This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare the benefits and harms of metformin and insulin versus insulin alone ... and insulin versus insulin alone did not significantly affect all-cause mortality (RR 1.30 95% CI 0 ...
as inevitably life threatening but rather a chronic disease requiring long-term management. INHALED INSULIN AND TYPE-2 DIABETES - ANN INTERN MED 2005; 143: 549-58 Inhaled insulin is coming and researchers are keen ... in the US and Canada. All patients had type-2 diabetes and were on dual therapy of insulin secretagogue ...
She lives alone, her diet is variable and she is refusing to change to insulin. Although I have ... stigma or about physically administering the insulin. Perhaps she does not appreciate that modern insulin ... and comfort in these situations. She may agree to insulin if the drug is administered by district nurses ...
. It is caused by autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells and leads to an absolute deficiency of insulin. The cause is unknown but involves a complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors. Insulin injections have been the mainstay of treatment, allowing survival but having ...
of insulin which, combined with high levels of stress hormones, stimulates lipolysis. This results in the production of acetyl-CoA, which acts as a substrate for the formation of ketones. The lack of insulin ... management involves rehydration, insulin therapy, potassium replacement and treating any intercurrent illness ...
can be very slow, typically developing over a period of 10 years or more. A reduction in insulin action known as insulin resistance is an early feature in the development of type-2 diabetes. This insulin resistance is initially overcome by a compensatory rise in insulin levels which maintains normal ...
Type-2 diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate metabolism involving insulin resistance and eventual pancreatic beta-cell exhaustion. It is characterised by a dual defect in insulin secretion and insulin action. While insulin resistance plays a major role in the accompanying metabolic syndrome, the defect ...
by hyperglycaemia, the fundamental defect being a deficiency of insulin action. In the classical, juvenile-onset form of diabetes (now termed type-1 diabetes) there is an absolute lack of insulin. Conventionally ... diabetic patients and have a more rapid progression towards insulin treatment. 1 Aetiology ...
is disturbed in women with PCOS, resulting in multiple small cysts. Elevated serum insulin is found to be more ... to be key to the pathogenesis of the syndrome as insulin stimulates androgen secretion by the ovarian stroma ... and long-term screening advisable. Insulin resistance Obesity and PCOS have a synergistic effect ...
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