DOI: 10.2337/dc06-2173 © 2007 by the American Diabetes Association
An Open, Randomized, Parallel-Group Study to Compare the Efficacy and Safety Profile of Inhaled Human Insulin (Exubera) With Glibenclamide as Adjunctive Therapy in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Poorly Controlled on MetforminResponse to Kanna and Abreu-Pacheco
1 University of Birmingham and Heart of England National Health Service Foundation Trust (Teaching), Birmingham, U.K Address correspondence to A.H. Barnett, Undergraduate Centre, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham, B9 5SS, U.K. E-mail: anthony.barnett@heartofengland.nhs.uk
We thank Kanna and Abreu-Pacheco (1) for their comments on our study (2). As Kanna and Abreu-Pacheco point out, overweight and obesity are strongly linked to the development of type 2 diabetes and can complicate its management. While most patients with type 2 diabetes are overweight (3), this study (2) included individuals with a range of BMI values typical of those
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