Higher Risk of Hypoglycemia with Glimepiride Versus Vildagliptin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes is not Driven by High Doses of Glimepiride: Divergent Patient Susceptibilities?

Diabetes Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 459-469

  Ahrén, Bo ^a   Foley, James Edward ^b   Dejager, Sylvie ^c   Akacha, Mouna ^b   Shao, Qing ^b   Heimann, Guenter ^b   Dworak, Markus ^d   Schweizer, Anja ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA K K   (Japan)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipeptidyl peptidase 4; Hypoglycemia; Sulfonylurea; Type 2 diabetes; Vildagliptin

Indexed keywords

GLIMEPIRIDE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; METFORMIN; VILDAGLIPTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84919650730     PISSN: 18696953     EISSN: 18696961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13300-014-0082-y     Document Type: Article

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