The study included 18 patients (10 females and 8 males) with a not less than 2 year-history of type 1 diabetes (T1D), who had received insulin therapy since its diagnosis was established. The patients ’ mean age was 32.9± 13.0 years; the mean duration of TID was 15.1+11.5 years; the mean daily dose of insulin was 40.1+16.0 units; the mean level of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbAJ was 9.4±2.1% (the normal value 4.4-4.9%). The glycemic curve symmetrization method proposed for statistical analysis of glycemic self-control is also quite suitable for the statistical monitoring of a continuous daily glycemic curve. The high and low glycemic indices calculated from the symmetrized glycemic data correlate well with the level of HbAk and with the duration of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia and hence they may be used as additional criteria for a risk of diabetes complications. The criteria, calculated from the symmetrized data of glycemia for the risk of hyper- and hypoglycemia, adequately reflect the behavior of a continuous glycemic curve and may be used as integral indices of the efficiency of glucose-reducing therapy in clinical practice.

The purpose of the study was to comprehensively analyze glycemic control in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients who were first given glucose-reducing therapy. Glidiab MB and Diabeton MB caused a comparable reduction in glycemic control parameters: the level of HbA1c, fasting glycemia, and mean glycemic levels as shown by the results of its continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) study. The lower glycemic level was not accompanied by weight gain and it improved lipid spectrum parameters. The readings of monthly self-control of glycemia were transformed to its deviation from the goal range (ADRR) that and the hyper- and hypoglycemia indices calculated from the continuous glycemic control were used to evaluate glycemic lability not reflected by HbA1c. In this connection ADRR may be used to evaluate the efficiency of sugar-reducing therapy and in the examined groups it proved to be low, which generally reflects the stable course of the disease in new cases of T2D. The mean glycemic value calculated from CGMS data virtually coincides with the mean glycemia estimated from glycemic self-control readings both on the day of continuous glucose monitoring and in the month to come before and after CGMS study. In this connection the latter is justified only when the continuous glycemic curve undergoes a complex analysis. The complex analysis of the continuous glycemic curve includes symmetrization of the continuous glycemia scale; calculation of hyper- and hypoglycemic indices, hourly diurnal hyperglycemic index and hourly glycemic variations (Poincare method). The use of this procedure could compare the glucose-reducing effect of the two drugs within the framework of a short-term study.