AIM Type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of fractures. There are a few studies on the effects of diabetes treatment on fracture risk. The aim was to investigate the fracture risk related to various types of insulin therapy in primary care practices. METHODS Data from 105,960 type 2 diabetes patients from 1,072 general and internal medicine practices in Germany were retrospecti...

OBJECTIVE To compare pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of insulin analogs glargine and detemir, 24 subjects with type 1 diabetes (aged 38 +/- 10 years, BMI 22.4 +/- 1.6 kg/m2, and A1C 7.2 +/- 0.7%) were studied after a 2-week treatment with either glargine or detemir once daily (randomized, double-blind, crossover study). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Plasma glucose was clamped at 100 mg/dl...

Theoretical pharmacokinetic advantages and methodological flaws: glargine is not superior to NPH insulin in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus To the Editor, We have read with great interest the recent article by Rollin and collaborators (1) concerning the use of glargine and NPH insulin in children (0-8 years old) with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). We would like to comment on the contex...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, insulin analogues have been developed in order to improve the pharmacological parameters of insulin and to better mimic endogenous insulin output. Given that some of the modifications introduced into insulin analogues are located in a domain involved in a potential interaction with the insulin-like growth factor-I receptor (IGF-IR), it has been postulated that cert...

OBJECTIVE To add to the evidence on comparative long-term effects of insulin analog glargine versus human NPH insulin on the risk for cancer. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We identified cohorts of initiators of glargine and human NPH without an insulin prescription during the prior 19 months among patients covered by the Inovalon Medical Outcomes Research for Effectiveness and Economics Registr...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the short-term and long-term clinical and economic outcomes associated with insulin glargine or NPH insulin in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) inadequately controlled with oral anti-diabetic drugs in Switzerland, modeling the interaction between hypoglycemia and glycemic control (HbA1c). METHODS A validated discrete event sim...

It has long been known that both obesity 1–4 and type 2 diabetes are associated with an increased risk of cancer. For type 2 diabetes, this has been particularly recognized with pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer, and breast cancer. It has long been known that insulin can stimulate breast cancer growth in tissue culture. Many papers have examined the relationship between insulin and insulin-l...

PRINCIPLES We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of, and treatment satisfaction with, insulin glargine administered with SoloSTAR® or ClikSTAR® pens in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus managed by primary care physicians in Switzerland. METHODS A total of 327 patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes were enrolled by 72 physicians in this prospective observational study, which ai...

OBJECTIVE GLP-1 receptor agonists may provide an alternative to prandial insulin for advancing basal insulin therapy. Harmony 6 was a randomized, open-label, active-controlled trial testing once-weekly albiglutide vs. thrice-daily prandial insulin lispro as an add-on to titrated once-daily insulin glargine. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Patients taking basal insulin (with or without oral agents...

OBJECTIVE We sought to test the hypothesis that start of insulin glargine with sustained nightly insulin action results in changes in circulating concentrations of IGF-I and IGF binding proteins (IGFBPs) in adolescents with type 1 diabetes-changes that may support improvement of A1C. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Twelve pubertal adolescents with type 1 diabetes and initially on NPH insulin were...