Basal Bolus Versus Human Insulin in Hospitalized Patients With Diabetes in Paraguay

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Few randomized studies have focused on the optimal management of non-ICU patients with type 2 diabetes in Latin America. Objective: Compare safety and efficacy of a basal bolus regimen with analogs and human insulins in general medicine patients admitted to a University Hospital in Asuncion, Paraguay.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Universidad Nacional de Asunción
• Treatments: Insulin; Insulin Glargine; Insulin, Globin Zinc

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age >18 years

• History of type 2 diabetes > 1 month

• Treatment with diet alone, any combination of oral antidiabetic agents, and/or insulin prior to admission

• Absence of diabetic ketoacidosis

Exclusion Criteria:

• No history of diabetes

• Subjects expected to undergo surgery during the hospitalization course

• Clinically relevant hepatic disease

• Impaired renal function (serum creatinine ≥ 3.0 mg/dL)

• Pregnancy

• Any mental condition rendering the subject unable to give informed consent