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ArticleDiabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders2022

Does Gender Influence the Effectiveness and Safety of Insulin Glargine 300 U/ml in Patients with Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes? Results from the REALI European Pooled Analysis.

Pierre Gourdy, Riccardo C Bonadonna, Nick Freemantle, Didac Mauricio, Dirk Müller-Wieland, Gregory Bigot, Celine Mauquoi, Alice Ciocca, Mireille Bonnemaire

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Article in Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

Pierre GourdyEndocrinology, Diabetology and Nutrition Department, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France.
Riccardo C BonadonnaAzienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Parma, Italy.
Nick FreemantleInstitute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, UK.
Didac MauricioDepartment of Endocrinology and Nutrition, CIBERDEM, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau Institut de Recerca, Barcelona, Spain.
Dirk Müller-WielandDepartment of Medicine I, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Gregory BigotIVIDATA, Paris, France.
Celine MauquoiIDDI, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Alice CioccaGeneral Medicines, Sanofi, Paris, France.
Mireille BonnemaireGeneral Medicines, Sanofi, Paris, France. mireille.bonnemaire@sanofi.com.
Sanofi (France) · FRCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas · ESInserm · FRInstitut des Arts de Diffusion · BEMRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL · GBOspedale di Parma · ITUniversitätsklinikum Aachen · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionGender differences in risk factors and treatment outcomes for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) may exist. We used the REALI European database to investigate whether there were gender-specific differences in baseline characteristics and clinical outcomes among patients with inadequately controlled T2DM initiated on insulin glargine 300 U/ml (Gla-300).

methodsData were pooled from 14 multicentre, prospective, interventional and non-interventional studies. Impact of gender on glycaemic control, insulin dose, body weight and hypoglycaemia was evaluated after 12 and 24 weeks of Gla-300 treatment.

resultsWomen (N = 3857) were older than men (N = 4376) (median age, 65.0 versus 63.0 years), with greater mean body mass index (32.5 versus 31.6 kg/m

conclusionDespite some gender differences in baseline characteristics, Gla-300 treatment improved glycaemic control, with overall low hypoglycaemia incidences in both men and women. However, women had statistically significantly lower HbA1c reductions than men, although these differences were clinically modest.

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EuropeGender differencesGlycaemic controlInsulin glargine 300 U/mlPooled analysisType 2 diabetes

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