RECENT ADVANCES IN MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES

There are many new treatment options available to a diabetic patient. Type I diabetes is mainly treated by diet control and insulin while type II diabetes or adult onset diabetes is treated by diet and oral hypoglycemic drugs. Recently varios clinical trials are in phase III or phase IV for many new drugs. These new treatment options are inhaled insulin, exenatide, incretins. Recently various new preparations are available in market which are long acting so as to avoid repeated insulin injections such as insulin glargine. Insulin lispro is used to avoid immediate post meal hyperglycemia. Various new insulin delivery system have been devised such as pen injector, automatic digital injector, continious subcutaneous insulin infusion and artificial pancreas.