Patient/caregiver was educated on Starlix and its mechanism of action as follows:

  1. Starlix is an oral antidiabetic drug, used in patients with type-2 diabetes.
  2. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas in your body. Insulin helps with shifting the glucose in the blood into the cells of body tissues. This helps with regulating the blood sugar levels and providing nutrition to the cells of body tissues.
  3. Type-2 diabetes is a condition in which your body becomes resistant to the action of insulin. Resistance to action of insulin hormone leads to poor shifting of glucose in the blood into the cells of body tissues. This leads to poor regulation of blood sugar levels with higher blood sugar numbers and poor nutrition supply to the cells of body tissues. Reduced nutrition supply to body tissues can contribute to diabetes symptoms, such as, feeling very tired, confusion, and blurred vision.

Starlix helps with regulating the blood sugar control and management of Type-2 diabetes by the following mechanisms:

  1. Starlix is mostly used in individuals with reduced insulin secretion and in individuals who are resistant to the amount of insulin they are currently producing.
  2. Starlix is very quick and short to act. It acts by stimulating release of more insulin from the cells of pancreas.
  3. Increased insulin secretion by Starlix can help improve shifting of glucose from the blood into the cells of body tissues.
  4. Increased glucose shifting into the cells leads to lowered blood sugar numbers and improved regulation of blood sugars. Increased glucose shifting into the cells contribute to better nutrition supply to the cells of body tissues. Improved nutrition supply to body tissues result in improvement in diabetes symptoms, such as, feeling very tired, confusion, and blurred vision.
  5. Control of blood sugars over time with starlix also results in lowering of hemoglobin A1c, which is a lab indicator of chronic blood glucose control, over the past 3 months.
  6. Starlix can be used either alone or in combination with other antidiabetic medications for improved control of blood sugars.