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View Post: Combining insulin with metformin or repaglinide in non-obese ...
9 Nov 2009
After a four month run-in period with repaglinide plus metformin combination therapy, those with a HbA1c ≥6.5% (n= 102 but 1 drop out) were randomised to repaglinide 6mg (n= 49) or metformin 2000 mg (n= 52) and 97 completed the trial. ...
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View Post: Add-on metformin therapy equivalent to repaglinide for Type 2 ...
9 Nov 2009
Add-on metformin therapy produces a similar level of glycemic control to add-on therapy with the insulin secretagogue repaglinide in non-obese Type 2 diabetics when combined with existing insulin treatment, show results from a ...
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View Post: Renal Fellow Network: Metformin-induced Lactic Acidosis
13 Nov 2009 by Conall O' Seaghdha  
Metformin is the only hypoglycemic agent proven to reduce mortality in Type 2 DM. As such, we really should be making every effort to prescribe it, and keep patients taking it. Unfortunately, mostly due to it's relationship to parent ...
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View Post: Updates to Blood Sugar 101: Metformin's Effect Linked Strongly to ...
13 Nov 2009 by Jenny  
Included findings of a fascinating study published in 2001, but previously overlooked, that provided detailed insight into Metformin's activation of AMP-kinase (AMPK) in rat tissue in ways that provide explanations for many of the ...
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View Post: Metformin/Glucophage for cancer
17 Nov 2009 by Brad Weeks, MD  
Here, we show that low doses of metformin, a standard drug for diabetes, inhibits cellular transformation and selectively kills cancer stem cells in four genetically different types of breast cancer. The combination of metformin and a ...
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View Post: METFORMIN THE MASTER DRUG: « Healthspanlife – the Official Life! Blog
13 Nov 2009 by healthspanlife  
Emory Univ Atlanta (Narayan and Williamson 2009) claim in a new review that “trials show that lifestyle intervention reduces diabetes incidence by over 50% and is more efficacious than metformin. But neither experience nor realistic ...
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View Post: Diabetes Monitor - press release: lifestyle changes or metformin ...
11 Nov 2009 by The newest webpage at the Diabetes Monitor!  
Treatment with the oral diabetes drug metformin reduced the rate of developing diabetes by 18 percent after 10 years compared with placebo. Results of the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS), which examines the ...
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