Awiqli, a weekly insulin injection, will soon become available in Canada, which doctors say will 'make life easier' for people living with diabetes.
injection will soon become available in Canada , which doctors say will “make life easier” for people living with diabetes and is an “exciting” treatment to have in the toolbox.
For Type 1 diabetes patients, who are more insulin-dependent, Awiqli must be used in regimens containing rapid-acting or short-acting insulin to cover mealtime insulin requirements, the drug manufacturerThis medicine does not replace the mealtime insulin, but is another option instead of the daily background insulin that patients take, said Jeremy Gilbert, an endocrinologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.The main advantage of weekly insulin is the convenience, experts say.
The series of randomized clinical trials for Awiqli — which included many countries, such as Canada and the U.S. — were mostly done with Type 2 patients.Only one of the trials involved patients with Type 1 diabetes and it found a higher risk of low blood sugar when those patients took the weekly insulin option.
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