Liraglutide plus insulin improved HbA1c, body weight, QOL in patients with type 1

[Northerner]

Adding 1.2 mg and 1.8 mg of liraglutide to insulin significantly reduced HbA1c, mean blood glucose, insulin dose, body weight, carbohydrate intake and c-reactive protein while improving quality of life for patients with type 1 diabetes, according to a presenter at the AACE 23rd Annual Scientific & Clinical Congress.

“Since the discovery of insulin by Banting and Best in 1921, no significant advances have been made in the field of type 1 diabetes,” Nitesh D. Kuhadiya, MD, MPH, assisant professor of medicine at the University of Buffalo, said during his presentation. “Living with type 1 diabetes continues to remain a major challenge. It is akin to a wild horse that is very hard to train and it kicks you 10 times a day.”

http://www.healio.com/endocrinology...y-weight-qol-in-patients-with-type-1-diabetes

 

[trophywench]

Nitesh, I think you don't have diabetes. Plus you haven't been listening or read anything either. There have been huge advances in the last 42 years alone.

Yes we still treat the thing with insulin, but neither the insulin itself nor the regime, bears very very little resemblance to what Banting, Best & MacLeod + Eli Lilly delivered way back then.

If diabetes kicks you that many times a day then you and your doctor, esp if he's like you! are doing something WRONG mate.