EARLY DIABETES DELAYED BY INSULIN BOOST
22 May 2008: Research from China could herald a change in the way diabetes patients are treated. Studies carried out on patients with type 2 diabetes have found that a short course of intensive insulin treatment may delay the disease's progression, reports The BBC.
Three hundred and eight patients in the trial were all treated with the same diet and exercise regime. It was found that those who were given an initial course of insulin injections were in better health than those who had taken a short course of oral diabetes medicine.
Traditional management of type 2 diabetes has been a combination of diet and exercise, with drug intervention if it's needed. Now these trials have shown that early insulin treatment seems to restore the body's ability to produce insulin.
Pav Pank, care advisor at Diabetes UK said:
"The research shows that considering using insulin early when people are first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes might be an additional way to achieve good management."
Ria Campbell,
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