Mehreen Asghar, Zafar Saeed Saify, Khwaja Zafar Ahmed, Seema Ashraf.
Role of Insulin Pen Therapy to Control Diabetes.
Ann Jinnah Sindh Med Uni Jan ;1(2):31-4.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) has become a serious challenge for health care organization throughout the world due to its wide-ranging occurrence and economic burden. Now a day the major health matter that cause serious long term diseases is Diabetes. Requirement to treat DM mostly entails a multidrug regimen that includes oral hypoglycemic agents and insulin. Giatrics are at greater risk of dosing errors, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and other insulin administration associated issues due to poor glycemic control and very high rates of complications / associated co-morbidities of diabetes such as retinopathy, dementia, neuropathies, nephropathies, poor mobility rate. Insulin pen devices have shown a safer, easier, convenient and more acceptable method of insulin delivery and proved to have more reliability, accuracy, and simplified dosing in elders. This review article will describe the functions and discuss the potential advantages of insulin pen devices over conventional method of insulin delivery through vial and syringes.

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