Insulin Injection Techniques and Skin Lipodystrophy

Dear Colleagues,

The most frequent local complications of insulin injection are subcutaneous nodules due to incorrect injection techniques called lipodystrophies (LD). Injection into nodules has a series of negative consequences for glycemic control and variability, the frequency of severe hypoglycemia, the economic burden of diabetes, and the quality of life of patients with diabetes.

Guidelines and expert consensuses on injection techniques have appeared in the literature, and case series, surveys, and clinical trials concerning this topic are published continuously. Nevertheless, unfortunately, LD frequency remains dramatically high, mercilessly decreeing a defeat for healthcare providers. Common misconceptions, prejudices, educational deficiencies, and much more influence the incorrect injection behavior of people with diabetes, and a flawed or, even worse, incorrect approach to the problem by healthcare professionals is also, at least partly, responsible for such neglected insulin treatment complications.

These aspects deserve attention and represent a call to integrated action by educators, clinicians, researchers, and people with diabetes to correctly address a behavioral defect responsible for severe short- and long-term consequences for the latter and enormously increased costs for national health systems worldwide.

The Editorial Board invites you to send your contributions in the form of commentaries, short communications, research papers, clinical trials, case series, or surveys to provide readers with a timely update on insulin-induced lipodystrophies.

Dr. Sandro Gentile
Dr. Felix Strollo
Guest Editors

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• diabetes
• insulin treatment
• injection technique
• skin complications
• acquired lipodystrophy