What are the indications for insulin in type 2 diabetics

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Measures of treatment efficacy are those numbers we think about when we decide whether one treatment is "better" than another. Such measures quantify the differences between treatments and help patients and clinicians make informed choices. The usual measure of treatment efficacy in periodontal research has been the mean difference between treatments in probing level measures. This measure has frustrated clinicians and researchers alike for its failure to communicate the size of the association between treatment and clinical outcome. How does one interpret the clinical relevance of a small mean difference between treatments, such as 0.4 mm? This report compares the advantages and disadvantages of the different measures of treatment efficacy: the mean difference, the relative risk, significance levels (P-values), the risk difference, and, the preventable fraction.

1. In the chapter on diabetes you wrote that you should avoid tablets before age of 40 years in non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Why is this, because in our country most doctors are prescribing this?

2. 1. Should a patient poorly controlled on glibenclamide 15 mg a day and metformin 1500 mg a day be moved onto insulin?

2. What are the indications for insulin in type 2 diabetics?

3. What happens to the insulin-secreting capacity of a type 2 diabetic placed on insulin therapy earlier than recommended? Can the external supply of insulin improve the functional capacity of the insulin-secreting cells, to some extent by providing some rest to these cells?

4. 1. Is inhaled insulin a suitable substitute for injectable insulin?

2. Is there, or will there soon be, insulin in the form of a tablet?

5. What are the complications of insulin other than hypoglycaemia and injection?

6. I would like to know the processes that go into administering the Alberti's/modified Alberti's regime in patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus.

7. Is there any role for steroids in the management of resistant diabetes mellitus (daily insulin requirement exceeding 100 units/day)? Don't they make glycaemic control worse?

8. What is the importance of potassium chloride (KCl) in the treatment of a diabetic patient (pre-operative care)? The formula in the text is explained as 16 U of insulin 10 mmol of KCl 500 mL 10% glucose.

9. What is the cut-off point of daily albumin excretion above which a diabetic patient without hypertension should be given an angiotensinconverting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor?

10. What is the urinary concentration or 24-hour urine albumin content above which angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors should be started in diabetic patients? Does an albumin (in microgram)/creatinine (in milligrams) ratio above 30 in the morning sample indicate a need for this?

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