Yuichiro Iwamoto, Tomohiko Kimura, Masashi Shimoda, Yuichi Morimoto, Yuki Watanabe, Takashi Itoh, Taku Sasaki, Shigehito Mori, Masato Kubo, Haruka Takenouchi, Kazunori Dan, Hideyuki Iwamoto, Junpei Sanada, Yoshiro Fushimi, Yukino Katakura, Shuhei Nakanishi, Tomoatsu Mune, Kohei Kaku, Hideaki Kaneto
AIMS: To evaluate the correlation between C-peptide index (CPI) at 2 h post-meal and endogenous insulin secretory capacity and to develop clinical models to predict the possibility of withdrawal from insulin therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes. METHOD: This was a single-centre retrospective study of patients with type 2 diabetes admitted to our hospital. Patients were divided into a withdrawal group (n = 72) and a non-withdrawal group (n = 75) based on whether they were able to withdraw from insulin therapy at discharge, and the correlation between CPI at 2 h after meal and diabetes-related parameters was evaluated...
April 22, 2024: Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism