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In type 2 diabetes, the meal content is often not taken into consideration when calculating prandial insulin doses.
Practitioners should consider meal content when determining insulin doses for type 2 diabetes.
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whereas in type 2 diabetes the meal content is often not taken into consideration.
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The review discusses the implications of current practices in type 2 diabetes.
Source
Insulin in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes—Should the Dose of Insulin Before a Meal be Based on Glycemia or Meal Content?
Janusz Krzymień et al. · Nutrients · 2019
DOI 10.3390/nu11030607
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