1. Diabetes Challenges in Primary Care: How to Initiate and Intensify Insulin Therapy

2. Insulin Use in Primary Care: Practice Challenges

3. Agenda

4. ADA/EASD Recommendations for T2DM Management: When Is Insulin Use Indicated ?

5. Barriers to Initiation of Insulin Therapy

6. Triggers to Initiate Insulin in Primary Care

7. Insulin Regimens—3 Practical Steps

8. Basal Insulin Therapy

9. Initiation and Titration of Basal Insulin: Example—Degludec

10. Initiation and Titration of Basal Insulin: Example—Glargine

11. Insulin Optimization or Intensification: When, Why, How?

12. ADA/EASD Position Statement: Sequential Insulin Strategies in T2DM Management

13. Rationale for GLP-1 RA/Basal Insulin Combination

14. IDegLira Fixed-Ratio Combination: Change in HbA1c

15. Dosing Regimen of IDegLira Fixed-Ratio Combination (Once-Daily Pen SC Injection)

16. Conclusions

17. Abbreviations