Safety and tolerability of exenatide once weekly in patients with type 2 diabetes: An integrated analysis of 4,328 patients

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity

Volumn 8, Issue , 2015, Pages 241-253

  MacConell, Leigh ^a   Gurney, Kate ^a   Malloy, Jaret ^a   Zhou, Ming ^a   Kolterman, Orville ^a  

^a BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Glucagon like peptide 1 receptor agonist; Hyperglycemia; Hypoglycemia

Indexed keywords

2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; EXENDIN 4; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LIRAGLUTIDE; METFORMIN; PIOGLITAZONE; SITAGLIPTIN; SULFONYLUREA; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DEATH; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMA; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSTIPATION; DECREASED APPETITE; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE SEQUENCE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSLIPIDEMIA; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INJECTION SITE INDURATION; INJECTION SITE NODULE; INJECTION SITE PRURITUS; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; PERICARDITIS; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SEIZURE; THYROID CANCER; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URETER STONE; VIRAL PERICARDITIS; VOMITING;

EID: 84936943524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/DMSO.S77290     Document Type: Article

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