The purpose of the study is to demonstrate, that there is no difference in metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and therapy with human insulin with or without injection-meal-interval.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
The patient injects human insulin (as Actrapid from NovoNordisc) as usual in their insulin routine. The injection is subcutaneous and the dosage is dependent on the blood glucose monitoring. Patients will inject insulin previous every meal, with the following differences: 1. Group A: with injection-meal-interval: 50 patients educated to inject the insulin with an injection-meal-interval of 15 minutes 2. Group B: without injection-meal-interval: 50 patients educated to inject the insulin without injection-meal-interval Cross-over will occur to the other group after 12 weeks. The follow up is 28 weeks.
Friedrich-Schiller-University, department of internal medicine III
Jena, Germany
HbA1c
Time frame: Week 16 and 28
Hypoglycemia
Time frame: Week 16 and 28
Treatment satisfaction
Time frame: week 16 and 28
Quality of Life
Time frame: week 16 and 28
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