Endocrine Abstracts

The treatment of type 1 diabetes is currently restricted to insulin therapy. However, achieving and maintaining strict glycaemic control is a demanding task for many patients and increases the risk of hypoglycaemia and weight gain. This makes new treatments complementary to insulin of interest. In type 2 diabetes, the combination of insulin and a GLP-1 receptor agonist improves glycaemic control, induces weight loss and reduces daily insulin dose needed. However, only little e...