ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the effects of glargine combined metformin and repaglinide combined metformin treatment on metabolism of free radicals in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes(T2DM ) .Methods Selected 90 cases of elderly T2DM pa‐tients were divided into 2 groups:group A (glargine combined metformin treatment group) ,group B (repaglinide combined met‐formin treatment group) .Each group had 45 patients ,they were all treated for four weeks in antidiabetic therapy ,select 40 healthy people in physical examination center of hospital as controls .They were measured in patients with fasting plasma glucose (FPG) ,2h postprandial blood glucose(2hPG) ,malondialdehyde (MDA) ,glutathione peroxidase (GSH‐PX) ,8‐iso‐prostane (8‐iso‐PGF2a) , Hcy and so on ,before and after treatment .Results (1)Before treatment ,the FPG ,2hPG ,HbA1c ,MDA ,8‐iso‐PGF2a ,Hcy of group A and B were higher than the control group ,while the level of GSH‐PX was lower than the control group ,the difference was statis‐tically significant(P0 .05) ,While 8‐iso‐PGF2a , MDA ,Hcy of group A had a bigger decline rate than group B ,the GSH‐PX in group A increased more compared with group B ,the difference was statistically significant (P<0 .05) .Conclusion (1)There is a high oxidative stress state in elderly patients with T2DM ;(2)Both treatments could improve diabetics oxidative stress levels ,but glarginecombined metformin to reduce diabetics oxi‐dative stress is superior to repaglinide combined metformin .