Introduction

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the non transmissible chronic illnesses which have increased in prevalence during the last decades worldwide. Among the related treatments is the insulin based therapy. Nevertheless, the multiple and diverse controlled and commercial options of this therapy have generated confusion among both the users and health staff.

Objective

To describe some insulin-based therapy approaches to type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Development

The related technological advances have produced new diverse analog forms of insulin-based therapies. Among these, inhaling and blended forms can be highlig- hteddue to their efficacy in glucose control. Among the blended mixture, administration forms are the intensive action and the mobile action ones, which can use a human insulin analog as the key therapy element. The public systems, including the Chilean, have an important security role in the supervision and monitoring of the proper and correct dose administrations.

Conclusion

The diverse forms of insulin-based therapies for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus include those with prolonged action insulin analogs but their use should be based on integral knowledge in order to avoid adverse effects. The findings of this review should be considered with caution due to the methodological limitations derived from the study design.