Breaking Barriers With Basal Insulin Biosimilars in Type 2 Diabetes.

Despite increases in the availability and effectiveness of other therapies, insulin remains an essential treatment for approximately 30 million people with type 2 diabetes worldwide. The development of biosimilars has created the potential for significant health care cost savings and may lead to greater access to basal insulin for vast populations. In this review, we discuss evidence demonstrating equipoise between basal insulin biosimilars and the patented analogs they may replace.

The Association Between Three Adipocytokines (Adiponectin, Resistin and Visfatin) And Thyroid Status in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Autoimmune Thyroiditis.

Autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) are the most common endocrinological diseases worldwide. Relation between these diseases explains several hypotheses. One of them is influence of some adipocytokines.

[The role of GLP-1 receptor agonists and their fixed combination with insulin in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus].

Therapy with GLP1 receptors agonists shows various multiorgans benefits. Possible reasons of preference of this treatment are: efficacy, decrease of weight, CV protectivity, slow down the progression of nephropathy, protection of function of B-cells, safety (low risk of hypoglycemia, small incidence of serious adverse events), decrease of blood pressure, lipids, biomarkers of CV risk, markers of chronic subclinical inflammation. In context of individual approach, therapy with GLP1 receptors agonists should be preferably used in early stages of type 2 diabetes mellitus, as second choice treatment after metformin, mainly in more obese patients with subclinical or clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis, but without symptoms of heart failure.

[A consensual therapeutic recommendation for type 2 diabetes mellitus by the Slovak Diabetes Society (2018)].

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous medical condition involving multiple pathophysiological mechanisms. Its successful treatment requires an individualized approach and frequently combined therapy with utilizing its effect on multiple levels. Current possibilities enable the employment of such procedures to an incomparably greater extent than before.

KCNQ1 gene polymorphism is associated with glycaemic response to treatment with DPP-4 inhibitors.

Aims: Only afew gene variants were associated with the response to dipeptidylpeptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP4I). KCNQ1 gene variants were previously related both to type 2 diabetes (T2D) and incretin effect. We hypothesized that T2D related KCNQ1 variants would be associated with smaller glucose-lowering effect of DDP4I.