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Optimizing Insulin Secretagogue Therapy in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

A randomized double-blind study with repaglinide

¹ Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, University Hospital of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
² Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

OBJECTIVE—Repaglinide, a novel antidiabetic agent that has a rapid onset and short duration of action, was developed for mealtime dosing. The purpose of this pharmacodynamic study was to validate a prandial regimen of repaglinide by comparing meal-related dosing with a regimen in which the same total daily dose was divided into only two doses at morning and evening meals.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—The study was a double-blind, randomized, parallel-group trial in 19 antidiabetic agent-naive subjects with type 2 diabetes (mean age 58 years, known duration of diabetes 3.5 years, HbA_1c 7.3%, and BMI 32 kg/m²). Patients were randomly assigned to receive repaglinide either before each of the three main meals or before breakfast and before the evening meal. Patients in both groups received the same total daily dose of repaglinide. Twenty-four hour profiles of blood glucose, plasma insulin, and plasma C-peptide concentrations were measured at baseline and after 4 weeks of treatment.

RESULTS—Repaglinide increased postprandial insulin levels and markedly reduced postprandial glucose levels relative to baseline in both groups. Significant reductions were also recorded in fasting blood glucose and HbA_1c levels. The repaglinide regimen, in which a dose was taken before each main meal, was more effective in improving glycemic control (including postprandial glucose and HbA_1c levels) than the same total dose of repaglinide divided into morning and evening mealtime doses.

CONCLUSIONS—These data support the strategy of mealtime dosing with repaglinide. The improvements in glycemic control observed in these patients are encouraging. In addition to classic parameters of glycemic control, improvements in postprandial glucose excursions may prove to be important because postprandial hyperglycemia has been suggested to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in diabetes.

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve.

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