Endocrine Abstracts

We describe a 37-year-old woman with a BMI of 32 kg/m2 who presented with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes (HbA1c of 10.3%). She was requiring 138 units of insulin (Aspart 20, 24 and 30 units pre meal and glargine 64 units at night daily). She previously had diarrhoea with metformin and an allergic reaction to glimepiride. Rosiglitazone was discontinued because of worsening liver function. Her insulin requirement increased in a year to 1650 units daily owing to ins...