INS and diabetes mellitus: General attitudes of people towards insulin therapy are comparable in both studies.24 Results of an study conducted in India on patients with diabetes (n=52) who had failed to control their disease with oral anti-diabetic agents, 69% (n=36) declined to start insulin in comparison to 18% (n=54) in our study and 50% (n=26) believed that insulin damaged other organs and had negative effects on overall health compared to 23% (n=69) in our study.25