Hypoglycemia in patients with type 2 diabetes newly initiated on basal insulin in the US in a community setting: impact on treatment discontinuation and hospitalization.

CONCLUSION: Patients with hypoglycemia soon after initiating basal insulin are at greater risk of discontinuation of their basal insulin therapy and hospitalization versus those who did not have hypoglycemic events within the first 6 months of basal insulin initiation. A limitation of this study is that it was a retrospective analysis of EMR data and the study may not be representative of all US patients with T2D on basal insulin and it cannot be assumed that every hypoglycemic event was recorded.
PMID: 27737571 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - October 17, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research