The egg or the chicken? Further data on whether good compliance to multi-injection insulin therapy should be a criterion for insulin pump therapy, or does insulin pump therapy improve compliance?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Lombardo, Fortunato ^a   Iafusco, Dario ^b   Salzano, Guiseppina ^a   Piscopo, Alessia ^b   Saitta, Giuseppe ^a   Pisani, Francesca ^b   De Luca, Filippo ^a   Prisco, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

HUMAN; INSULIN PUMP; INSULIN TREATMENT; LETTER; METABOLIC REGULATION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INSULIN INFUSION SYSTEMS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DROPOUTS;

EID: 36148983819     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.08.035     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. DiMeglio L.A., Pottorff T.M., Boyd S.R., France L., Fineberg N., and Eugester E.A. A randomized, controlled study of insulin pump therapy in diabetic preschoolers. J Pediatr 145 (2004) 380-384
2. Iafusco D., Confetto S., Prisco F., Lombardo F., Salzano G., and De Luca F. The egg or the chicken? Should good compliance to multi-injection insulin therapy be a criterion for insulin pump therapy, or does insulin pump therapy improve compliance. J Pediatr 148 (2006) 421 reply 421-2