Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 67, Issue 2 , Pages 119-123 , February 2005

Using insulin pen needles up to five times does not affect needle tip shape nor increase pain intensity

  • Jardena J Puder

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospitals, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
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  • Michael Atar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oral Growth and Development, St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
    • Present address: Department of Electron Microscopy, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
    • ,
  • Beat Muller

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospitals, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Marco Pavan

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospitals, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Ulrich Keller

      Affiliations

    • Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospitals, Petersgraben 4, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +41 61 2655078; fax: +41 61 2655100.

Received 22 January 2004 ,Revised 21 May 2004 ,Accepted 4 June 2004.

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☆ Presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Diabetes Association, New Orleans, Louisiana 2003 (Abstract p. 897).

PII: S0168-8227(04)00176-7

doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2004.06.001

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 67, Issue 2 , Pages 119-123 , February 2005

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