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Reduction of insulin dose on changing diabetic children from standard to monocomponent insulins.
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  1. N K Griffin,
  2. M A Smith,
  3. J D Baum

    Abstract

    21 diabetic children requiring greater than 50 units of standard insulin daily were changed to a monocomponent insulin. During the 3 months before the change the insulin dose had risen significantly from a mean of 70 to a mean of 77 units daily. During the 3 months after the change the dose fell significantly to a mean of 53 units daily. This decrease in insulin requirement was associated with a general improvement in diabetic control. This was assessed clinically and measured in 10 children by an analysis of home urine tests and in 8 children by an analysis of 24-hour urine glucose excretion.

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.54.2.123

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