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Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide: A Review in Type 2 Diabetes

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Subcutaneous insulin glargine/lixisenatide (Suliqua™) is a titratable, fixed-ratio combination of a long-acting basal insulin analogue and a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist for the treatment of adult patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes. Once-daily insulin glargine/lixisenatide, in combination with metformin, provided effective glycaemic control and was generally well tolerated in the 30-week, multinational, phase 3 LixiLan-O and LixiLan-L trials in insulin-naive and -experienced adult patients with inadequately controlled type 2 diabetes. Although long-term clinical experience with this fixed-ratio combination is currently lacking, given its convenient once-daily regimen and beneficial effects on glycaemic control and bodyweight loss in the absence of an increase in the incidence of hypoglycaemia, insulin glargine/lixisenatide is an emerging option for the treatment of adult patients with type 2 diabetes to improve glycaemic control when this has not been provided by metformin alone or metformin combined with another OAD or basal insulin.

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During the peer review process, the manufacturer of insulin glargine/lixisenatide was also offered an opportunity to review this article. Changes resulting from comments received were made on the basis of scientific and editorial merit.

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The manuscript was reviewed by: S.C. Bain, Swansea University, Institute of Life Science, Swansea, United Kingdom; J.C. Eriksson, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, and Unit of General Practice, Finland and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; N. Papanas, Democritus University of Thrace, Diabetes Care, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Alexandroupolis, Greece; J. Perez-Castrillon, Universidad de Valladolid, Institute of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Valladolid, Spain; A.J. Scheen, Division of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders, Department of Medicine, CHU Liège, and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, CIRM, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; T. Tzotzas, Agios Pavlos General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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Scott, L.J. Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide: A Review in Type 2 Diabetes. Drugs 77, 1353–1362 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40265-017-0783-4

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