Clinical Observation of Efficacy of Rosiglitazone Combined with Insulin in Treatment of Elderly Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the clinical efficacy and safety of Rosiglitazone (RSG) combined with insulin in treatment of elderly type 2 diabetes mellitus (type 2 DM) that had poor response to insulin treatment. Methods 68 cases of elderly type 2 DM patients with poor response to insulin treatment were randomly divided into experimental group and control group.The control group was treated with proper dose of insulin,and the experimental group were administered RSG 4mg/day plus insulin for 20 weeks. 4 weeks and 20 weeks after treatment FBC, PBC, HbA1C, UAER of 24 hrs, daily changes of insulin dosage and side-effect of the medicine were observed. Results In the experimental group the levels of FBG and PBG decreased in 4 weeks(P