Review: Pharmacology of insulin

Author:

Ahmad Bushra1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Diabetes, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK,

Abstract

Diabetes is associated with microvascular and macrovascular complications leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Glycaemic control is important to prevent and delay the progression of these complications. An ideal insulin regimen in patients with diabetes would mirror the 24-hour insulin profile of a non-diabetic person and thereby prevent hyperglycaemia without inducing hypoglycaemia. This has, until recently, proved difficult to reproduce by regular subcutaneous insulin injections due to the inherent pharmacokinetic properties of the available insulins. Normoglycaemia was rarely achieved without hypoglycaemia compromising the quality of patients' lives. The advent of the new long- and short-acting insulin analogues are expected to both improve glycaemic control leading to a reduction in diabetes-related complications and reduce the incidence of hypoglycaemia thereby offering patients a better lifestyle.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Internal Medicine

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