Abstract:Objective To evaluate the effects of ultra-short-term intensive insulin treatment with the multiple daily injection (MDI) regimen on β-cell function in inpatients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Methods We enrolled 69 cases of T2DM inpatients admitted to the Department of Endocrinology of the Forth Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University from January 2018 to December 2019. The changes of β-cell function [HOMA-β(C-P)ln] in the 69 inpatients before and after MDI treatment were compared. According to the different levels of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and body mass index (BMI), they were divided to high/low HbA1c subgroups and overweight/non-overweight subgroups. We compared the levels of HOMA-β(C-P)ln and other indicators before and after the treatment in different subgroups, and then evaluated the correlations between the difference of HOMA-β(C-P)ln before and after the treatment and other clinical factors.Results After MDI treatment, fasting blood glucose (FBG), FC-Pln and HOMA-IR(C-P)ln were decreased (P < 0.05), while HOMA-β(C-P)ln was increased (P < 0.05). The differences of FBG and HOMA-β(C-P)ln before and after the treatment in high HbA1c subgroup were higher than those in low HbA1c subgroup (P < 0.05). Compared with overweight group, the difference of FC-Pln before and after the treatment was higher, while the difference of HOMA-β(C-P)ln before and after the treatment was lower in non-overweight subgroup (P < 0.05). Pearson correlation analysis showed that the difference of HOMA-β(C-P)ln before and after the treatment positively correlated with FBG (r = 0.570, P < 0.05), HOMA-IR(C-P)ln (r = 0.331, P < 0.05), and HbA1c (r = 0.237, P < 0.05) prior to MDI treatment, as well as HOMA-IR(C-P)ln (r = 0.307, P < 0.05) and HOMA-β(C-P)ln (r = 0.560, P < 0.05) after the treatment. However, the difference of HOMA-β(C-P)ln before and after the treatment negatively correlated with FBG (r = -0.495, P < 0.05) after MDI treatment and HOMA-β(C-P)ln (r = -0.400, P < 0.05) before the treatment.Conclusions Ultra-short-term intensive insulin treatment with MDI regimen can improve β-cell function in T2DM inpatients, and the improvement of β-cell function is associated with multiple clinical factors, though the specific mechanisms remain to be further investigated.