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- Title
A rapid increase in beta-cell function by multiple insulin injections in type 2 diabetic patients is not further enhanced by prolonging treatment.
- Authors
Kärvestedt, L; Andersson, G; Efendic, S; Grill, V
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>Intensive insulin treatment in type 2 diabetes can improve beta-cell function. It is not known which duration of treatment achieves maximal improvement. We addressed this question in type 2 diabetic patients who displayed features of 'secondary failure'.<bold>Research Design and Method: </bold>Ten patients were randomized to multiple insulin injection (MI) therapy for 9 weeks. Another 10 patients started with bedtime insulin (BTI) and continued their peroral medication. Following 9 weeks of treatment, patients on MI switched to BTI and glibenclamide.<bold>Results: </bold>Three days of MI led to a decrease in fasting proinsulin/insulin ratio, 0.43 +/- 0.20 vs. 0.29 +/- 0.11, P=0.01 and an increase in glucagon-stimulated C-peptide over baseline, 0.77 +/- 0.43 vs. 1.28 +/- 0.44 nmol L-1, P 0.02. Nine weeks of MI treatment successively decreased fasting and nonfasting blood glucose in parallel with increasing insulin dosage. Initial improvements in secretion parameters were upheld but not further enhanced, the 9 week proinsulin/insulin ratio being 99 +/- 23% and that of glucagon-stimulated C-peptide being 95 +/- 24% of the values obtained after 3 days of treatment. Eight weeks after termination of MI there persisted a total weight gain that tended to be larger than after continuous peroral medication with BTI.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Improvement of insulin secretion by intensive insulin treatment is rapidly gained with no further effect obtained after a longer treatment period. This finding, as well as undesirable effects of MI on body weight, argues against prolonged MI treatment as a prelude to other therapeutic regimens in type 2 diabetic patients.
- Publication
Journal of Internal Medicine, 2002, Vol 251, Issue 4, p307
- ISSN
0954-6820
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2796.2002.00956.x