First 20 months' experience with use of mefformin for type 2 diabetes in a large health maintenance organization

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 38-44

  Selby, Joe V ^a   Swain, Bix E ^a   Ettinger, Bruce ^a   Brown, Jonathan B ^b  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; METFORMIN; SULFONYLUREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MALE; METFORMIN; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0345320411     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.22.1.38     Document Type: Article

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