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Multinational Study Suggests Insulin Pump Better Than Multiple Daily Injections for Inadequatedly-Controlled Type 2 Diabetes

Lancet has the details. I’ve only read the abstract, so don’t know much about the actual research. Study subjects were sub-optimally controlled (HgbA1c of 8-12%) on multiple daily injections; that’s why they were considered for pump therapy. They were randomized to pump or continued multiple daily injections. What I can’t tell – and it matters – is whether the multiple injection group underwent changes in their management or whether they were told to “just keep doing what your were doing” (which wasn’t working well).

 

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What About Insulin Pumps?

Ever wonder what it’s like to get your insulin via a pump?  Tim at Shoot Up or Put Up shares his year’s worth of pump experience with the world.  Tim must have type 1 diabetes. He lives in the U.K., so you’ll see blood sugar levels in mmol/l instead of the U.S. standard of mg/dl.  To convert mmol/l to mg/dl, multiply by 18.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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