Phase IV study with a 36-week extension period to evaluate the efficacy and safety of dapagliflozin therapy when added to the therapy of Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes with inadequate glycemic control on insulin.

Exclusion Criteria

• - Diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes mellitus, known diagnosis of Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, secondary diabetes mellitus or diabetes insipidus
• - History of diabetic ketoacidosis.
• - Thyroid-stimulating hormone and free T4 values outside normal range, observed from the central laboratory; an abnormal Thyroid-stimulating hormone value needs to be followed up with a free T4 test. Patients with abnormal free T4 values will be excluded at Visit 1
• - Fasting Plasma Glucose >240 mg/dL (twice in a row) despite the permitted dose adjustment of insulin therapy during washout period and lead-in period.
• - Recent cardiovascular events in a patient.
• - eGFR <45 mL/min/1.73 m2 at Visit 3, observed from the central laboratory.
• - History of unstable or rapidly progressing renal disease.
• - History of unexplained microscopic or gross hematuria, or microscopic hematuria at Visit 1, confirmed by a follow-up sample at next scheduled visit, where according to the investigator a satisfactory evaluation of hematuria has not been conducted.
• - Severe hepatic insufficiency and/or significant abnormal liver function defined as aspartate aminotransferase (AST) >3x upper limit of normal (ULN) and/or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >3x ULN, observed from the central laboratory at Visit 1.
• - Total bilirubin >2.0 mg/dL (34.2 μmol/L), observed from the central laboratory at Visit 1.
• - Positive serologic evidence of current infectious liver disease including Hepatitis A viral antibody IgM, Hepatitis B surface antigen and Hepatitis C virus antibody, observed from the central laboratory.
• - Haemoglobin <10 g/dL (<100 g/L) or 6.2 mmol/L for men; haemoglobin <9.0 g/dL (<90 g/L) or 5.9 mmol/L for women, observed from the central laboratory at Visit 1.
• - History of chronic haemolytic anaemia or haemoglobinopathies (for example, sickle cell anaemia, thalassemia, sideroblastic anaemia). Mild haemolysis due to artificial heart valves or due to sickle cell trait is not an exclusion criterion except when haemoglobin levels are too low (as defined in haemoglobin criteria above).
• - History of malignancy within the last 5 years prior to enrolment, excluding successful treatment of basal or squamous cell skin cancer.