Systematic Reviews of Treatments using Insulin

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments using insulin and insulin analogues.
Reviewed September 2009

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Title:   Interventions for prevention of neonatal hyperglycemia in very low birth weight infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Blood sugar levels higher than usually seen in full term infants are frequently seen in babies born very early (before 32 weeks gestation) or with very low birth weight (> 1500 grams) and who are fed totally or partially by vein. Several types of advers...
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Interventions for treatment of neonatal hyperglycemia in very low birth weight infants
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Higher-than-normal blood sugar levels are frequently seen in babies born very early (before 32 weeks gestation) or with very low birth weight (> 1500 grams) and who are fed totally or partially by vein. Several types of adverse outcomes have been associ...
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Metformin added to insulin therapy for type 1 diabetes mellitus in adolescents
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder resulting from a defect in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Metabolic control (glycaemic control, that is long-term blood glucose levels as measured by glycosylated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)) often dete...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Interventions for preventing critical illness polyneuropathy and critical illness myopathy
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Neuromuscular problems are frequent complications in patients with severe disease that require admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Weakness of limbs and respiratory muscles is most frequently due to critical illness polyneuro-and/or myopathy (CI...
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Intermediate acting versus long acting insulin for type 1 diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Diabetes mellitus type 1 is a chronic disease with short and long term complications. The treatment for this disease is insulin administration, with basal and bolus insulin preparations being its main stay. Neutral Protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin had p...
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion versus multiple daily injections of insulin for pregnant women with diabetes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Insufficient evidence on different ways of administering insulin for pregnant women with diabetes....
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Long-acting insulin analogues versus NPH insulin (human isophane insulin) for type 2 diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   NPH (Neutral Protamine Hagedorn) insulin is the current standard for basal insulin in the blood glucose lowering therapy in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The mode of action of this insulin is highly variable, which may be the cause for the diffi...
Date:   Dec 2006
Title:   Interventions for non-oliguric hyperkalaemia in preterm neonates
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Elevated levels of potassium (an important salt for normal body functions) are common in infants born very preterm or with birth weight less than 1500 g. High potassium levels in the blood may lead to irregular or rapid heart rate that may result in ble...
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Short acting insulin analogues versus regular human insulin in patients with diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Short acting insulin analogues (Lispro, Aspart, Glulisine) act more quickly than regular human insulin. It can be injected immediately before meals and leads to lower blood sugar levels after food intake. Our analysis showed that short acting insulin an...
Date:   Sep 2005
Title:   'Human' insulin versus animal insulin in people with diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Human insulin has become the insulin of choice for newly diagnosed patients with diabetes mellitus. Insulin companies are eventually not going to maintain different species formulations for a declining proportion of the population with diabetes using an...
Date:   Jul 2004
Title:   Insulin monotherapy versus combinations of insulin with oral hypoglycaemic agents in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Simple application of a single daily insulin injection in addition to oral hypoglycaemic agents may facilitate the initiation of insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus.This review examined 20 trials including 1,811 participants which compared insul...
Date:   May 2004
Title:   Miscellaneous treatments for neuroleptic-induced tardive dyskinesia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Tardive dyskinesia is a disfiguring and disabling disorder of voluntary control of movement often caused by antipsychotic drugs. Several Cochrane reviews have summarised the effects of the many treatments used to manage these involuntary movements. This...
Date:   Jan 2003
Title:   Inhaled insulin in diabetes mellitus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Six trials have been done on giving short-acting insulin by inhalation instead of injection. Much of the evidence has not yet been published in full. The results so far suggest that inhaled insulin gives similar levels of glycated haemoglobin; overall t...
Date:   Jun 2002
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