Active clinical trials for "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2"

This study is conducted in Africa, Asia, South America and Europe. The aim of this observational study is to document the experience with the study insulins when used in routine clinical practice. After the physician's decision to start insulin treatment using NovoMix® 30, Levemir® or NovoRapid® (alone or combined), type 2 diabetics will be eligible to be included in this study at the physician's discretion

This study is conducted in Europe. The aim of this observational study is to gain practical experience with once daily Levemir® administration in type 2 diabetes patients who were previously treated with NPH insulins (e.g. Protaphane®) as basal insulin as part of their IIT under normal clinical practice conditions in Lithuania

This study is conducted in Asia. The aim of this observational study is to evaluate current status of diabetes management, control, complications in diabetic subjects in Asia.

Patients initiating injectable therapy for type 2 diabetes (insulin or exenatide) in usual clinical practice will be enrolled and followed up for two years in order to describe actual practice with regards to the time on initial treatment regime, whether treatment regimens are being modified, what treatment modifications are made, and clinical and patient-reported outcomes.

Purpose: To assess prior need for lipid lowering therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes. Background/Hypothesis: At present, lipid lowering therapy, usually with a HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor or "statin", is recommended therapy for selected patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). The use of statins for primary prevention of CVD is not clear. Some primary prevention studies have found a statistically significant benefit but others have not (CARDS and ASPEN). Although low-density lipoprotein (LDL) has traditionally been a key marker of cardiovascular disease risk (CVD) risk and thus a guide to statin treatment, in recent years apolipoprotein B (apoB) has emerged as an independent risk factor for CVD. In a recent study, Tildesley H. et al. showed that in 500 patients with type 2 DM not on lipid lowering therapy there was discordance between LDL and apoB values. Specifically, it was found that among patients who fail to achieve the LDL-C target, 13% of men, 24% of women less than 50 and 13% of women greater than 50 meet the apoB target. In other words, while the LDL level would indicate treatment, the apoB level would not. Objectives: The investigators propose to measure lipid parameters during lipid lowering therapy and compare this with lipid parameters at one and two months after discontinuation of therapy in selected patients with type 2 DM at low risk for CVD. Lipid parameters to be measured include: high-density lipoprotein (HDL) - cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, total cholesterol, total cholesterol: HDL-cholesterol ratio and apoB. As well, A1C will be measured.

This trial is conducted in Europe. The aim of this observational study is to evaluate the blood glucose control (HbA1c) using NovoMix® 30 for treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes under normal clinical practice conditions in Romania.

This observational study is conducted in Europe. The objective of this retrospective observational cohort analysis is to assess the changes of glycaemic control and quality of care in those Type 2 diabetic patients who were previously treated with Mixtard® insulins after 6 months of their switch to analog premix insulin NovoMix® 30 therapy.

For this cross-sectional case control pilot study 30 women, 55-75 years old with type II diabetes will be recruited. Diabetes will be defined as self-report of diabetes previously diagnosed by a physician, use of hypoglycemic medications, or fasting glucose > 126 mg/dl (7.0mM) in accordance with the American Diabetes Association criteria. The diabetic patient population will be divided into 2 groups: patients with status post low energy fractures of the proximal humerus, the proximal femur, the ankle and the foot (n=10) versus diabetic patients with no fractures or low energy trauma fracture history (n=10). An additional group of 10 diabetic postmenopausal women will be recruited and will have magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lower back only. Caucasian, Asian and Hispanic women will be combined since a previous study suggested that BMD is very similar in these 3 population and that ethnic differences are minimal. In addition a population of 10 age-matched, BMI-matched, race-matched healthy women, without osteoporotic fractures will be examined. In all of these volunteers a medical history will be obtained to ensure good health status and rule out chronic diseases that would have an impact on bone metabolism. Patients will undergo MRI, QCT and high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) examinations to determine bone mineral density and bone structure/quality. The hypothesis of this pilot project is that type II diabetic patients with and without low-energy fractures have a different trabecular bone architecture and composition, which is also different when compared to normal age-matched healthy patients. Architectural differences in these three patient groups may be visualized with high resolution MRI and high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) and will be most pronounced at the calcaneus and the distal tibia. Analyzing structure parameters obtained from high resolution MRI and spectroscopy may improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of diabetic bone disease and the prediction of fracture risk in an elderly diabetic population.

This study is conducted in Europe. The aim of this observational study is to evaluate the incidence of serious adverse drug reactions when initiating or switching to insulin therapy with NovoMix® 30 in subjects with type 2 diabetes under normal clinical practice conditions

This observational study is conducted in Europe. The trial aims to observe the incidence of serious adverse drug reactions in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes during Levemir® treatment.