Intervention to Preserve Beta-Cell Function in GAD Ab-Positive Diabetes

Completed 42 enrolled Tokyo Study Group

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelPrevention

Summary

We tested the hypothesis that insulin therapy rather than sulfonylurea (SU) treatment has a preferable outcome to reverse or preserve beta cell function in the patients with diabetes that is called slowly progressive insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes (SPIDDM) or latent autoimmune diabetes in adult (LADA).

Timeline

Start: 1996-01
Primary completion: —
Completion: 2005-01

Publications

Maruyama T, Tanaka S, Shimada A, Funae O, Kasuga A, Kanatsuka A, Takei I, Yamada S, Harii N, Shimura H, Kobayashi T. Insulin intervention in slowly progressive insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes mellitus. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Jun;93(6):2115-21. doi: 10.1210/jc.2007-2267. Epub 2008 Apr 8.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Insulin	Protein / enzyme biologic	—	—

Indications

No indication recorded.