A study to evaluate diabetes care in 1993 concluded that glycemic control was poor in the majority of people with diabetes, with a mean HbA1c level of 73 mmol/mol (8.8%) in patients with T2D on insulin treatment alone, and 80 mmol/mol (9.5%) in patients with T2D treated with a combination of insulin and non‐insulin diabetes medications.14 Here, INS is linked to diabetes mellitus.