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What is the phenotype of patients with gastrointestinal intolerance to metformin?
Diabetes & metabolism - 1 Sept 2013
Hermans M P, Ahn S A, Rousseau M F
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BACKGROUND: A substantial minority of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients treated with metformin develop severe gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms leading to drug discontinuation, depriving them of the potentially cardioprotective pleiotropic effects of this first-line oral agent. At present, it is unclear whether treating diabetes without being able to ever use metformin alters cardiovascular outcomes. PATIENTS...
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