Glycaemic benefit of iGlarLixi in insulin-naive type 2 diabetes patients with high HbA1c or those with inadequate glycaemic control on two oral antihyperglycaemic drugs in the LixiLan-O randomized trial

In this post hoc analysis of the randomized controlled LixiLan‐O trial in insulin‐naive type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients not controlled on metformin with or without a second oral antihyperglycaemic drug (OAD), the efficacy and safety of the fixed‐ratio combination, iGlarLixi (insulin glargine 100 U [iGlar] and lixisenatide [Lixi]), compared to its individual components was assessed in two patient subgroups: (1) a baseline HbA1c ≥9% (n = 134); (2) inadequate control (HbA1c ≥7.0% and ≤9.0%) despite administration of two OADs at screening (n = 725). Treatment with iGlarLixi resulted in a significantly greater reduction in least squares mean HbA1c compared with iGlar or Lixi alone in both subgroups (HbA1c ≥9% group: 2.9%, 2.5%, 1.7%; two OADs group: 1.5%, 1.2%, 0.7%, respectively). Target HbA1c 70% of patients on iGlarLixi in both subgroups, while mitigating the weight gain observed with iGlar alone. Rates of hypoglycaemic events were low overall. These results suggest that iGlarLixi achieves superior glycaemic control compared with iGlar or Lixi alone in T2DM patients with HbA1c ≥9% or those inadequately controlled on two OADs