2. 1) Insulin-secretion Inducing Oral Hypoglycemic Agents

Use of oral hypoglycemic and insulin agents in pregnant patients.

Although insulin remains the standard medication for the treatment of all types of patients with diabetes during pregnancy, oral hypoglycemics may be considered as alternative medications in the treatment of some types of diabetes in pregnancy.

Treatment of gestational diabetes: oral hypoglycemic agents or insulin?

Our report aims to verify whether perinatal maternal glycemic control in gestational diabetes can only be achieved with insulin or with oral hypoglycaemic agents. Then we want to evaluate the efficacy and safety of oral hypoglycemic agents in the treatment of gestational diabetes and then to compare these results with those associated with the use of insulin.

Initiating Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Failing on Oral Hypoglycemic Agents

T ype 2 diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by coexisting insulin deficiency and insulin resistance, with the resultant hyperglycemia leading to microand macrovascular complications. A large number of intervention trials demonstrated that improving glycemic control achieves considerable reductions of such complications (1–7). It has been estimated using the homeostasis multiple assessme...

Effects of insulin-oral hypoglycemic agents combined therapy in outpatients with type 2 diabetes.

To evaluate the efficacy of combined insulin-OHAs therapy in subjects with NIDDM who received treatment with OHAs and insulin alone, we selected 60 outpatients divided in two groups: Group A: 36 subjects treated with OHAs therapy that received insulin treatment for secondary failure; Group B: 24 subjects in which OHAs therapy was added to insulin regimen to avoid the effects of hyperinsulinizat...

Review: insulin monotherapy and insulin combined with oral hypoglycemic agents provide similar glycemic control.