Endocrine Abstracts

In patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), dysfunction of β-cellsstarts years before the diagnosis of T2DM and rapidly worsens after overt hyperglycemia. Use of short-term intensive insulin therapy (STIIT) at the time of diagnosis of overt hyperglycemia has shown clinical recovery of β-cells for up to 2 years. A systematic literature review of studies looking for the effect of STIIT, used within two years of diagnosis of T2DM, on the duration from relapse of h...