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Implication of critical pharmacokinetic gene variants on therapeutic response to metformin in Type 2 diabetes.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Jul 2018
Phani Nagaraja M, Vohra Manik, Kakar Ananth, Adhikari Prabha, Nagri Shivashankara K, D'Souza Sydney C, Umakanth Shashikiran, Satyamoorthy Kapaettu, Rai Padmalatha S
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AIM: Metformin, an oral hypoglycemic drug is the first line of treatment for Type 2 diabetes individuals. We studied the effect of critical gene single nucleotide polymorphisms on the glucose lowering effect of metformin. METHOD: We performed a prospective study on 221 newly diagnosed, treatment-naive Type 2 diabetes subjects. Individuals were started with metformin monotherapy and followed up for 12 weeks....
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