It has been reported in diabetes special issue of The Lancet that the researchers have demonstrated that early intensive insulin therapy may improve the functions of insulin generating ?-cells in the patients with type-2 diabetes. The schedule of the therapy has also been linked with blood glucose control recovery and restoration.

Type-2 diabetes is considered a disorder related to metabolism which typifies by insulin resistance .Many studies that have been conducted before have recommended that there is an ability in intensive insulin therapy to alter or at least slow down the development of the disease. Professor Jianping Weng of Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China and co researchers tried to find the true nature of these claims.