In men with insulin-dependent diabetes, pramlintide delayed first-meal solid gastric emptying versus placebo.
In plain wordsIn men with insulin-dependent diabetes, pramlintide slowed stomach emptying after the first meal compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Pramlintide (Symlin)
- Outcome
- DecreaseFirst-meal solid gastric emptying
- Study
n = 11
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Gastrointestinal motility · Gastrointestinal
- Studied dose
- 30 microg · subcutaneous · single doseAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
All three doses of pramlintide delayed emptying of the solid component of the first meal (p < 0.004) with no significant difference between the drug doses.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Eleven men with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus were studied in a double-blind, randomised, four-way crossover design.
At -30 min the patients self-injected their usual morning insulin and at -15 min they injected the study drug (either placebo or 30, 60 or 90 microg pramlintide) subcutaneously.