Table 2: Different modes of drugs and therapeutics for type 2 diabetes [11, 12].

Targets Pathways and Symptoms Personal Opinions
Glucose Decrease glucose concentrations in animal and human by glucose metabolism interference
Substitute or compete food glucose intake with other mono carbohydrates or glucose-derivatives
Controversy
Controversy
Insulin Human insulin and its derivatives
Modulators of pancreatic island ß-cell
Muscle content and insulin-receptor
Pharmaceutical innovations (oral forms of insulin)
First line therapy
Potential
Important
Future trends
Disease complications Cardiovascular complications
Nephropathy
Obesity
Chronic leg infection etc.
Potential and need to be improved
Hepatic functions Ameliorate of damaged cells and metabolism Future trend
Genetic changes Gene therapy or other biomedical therapies Promising
Leg ischemic Surgery Not satisfactory
Life styles Educations
Regular exercise
Lifestyle and behavior changes
Adherence
Persistence