A 4-mm needle reduces the risk of intramuscular injections without increasing backflow to skin surface in lean diabetic children and adults

Diabetes Care

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Birkebaek, Niels H ^a   Solvig, Jan ^a   Hansen, Birtha ^a   Jorgensen, Christina ^b   Smedegaard, Jorgen ^b   Christiansen, Jens S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NOVO NORDISK A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRAL INSULIN; NOVOFINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INSULIN;

ADULT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LETTER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE INJURY; NEEDLE; SKIN SURFACE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; BODY WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; STATISTICS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADULT; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INSULIN; NEEDLES; SKIN; THINNESS;

EID: 56149116448     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc08-0977     Document Type: Letter

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