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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?

Ahrén, Bo LU ; Foley, James Edward ; Dejager, Sylvie ; Akacha, Mouna ; Shao, Qing ; Heimann, Guenter ; Dworak, Markus and Schweizer, Anja (2014) In Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders
Abstract
In a previously published study, vildagliptin showed a reduced risk of hypoglycemia versus glimepiride as add-on therapy to metformin at similar efficacy. Glimepiride was titrated from a starting dose of 2 mg/day to a maximum dose of 6 mg/day. It is usually assumed that the increased hypoglycemia with glimepiride was driven by the 6 mg/day dose; it was therefore of interest to assess whether the risk of hypoglycemia is also different between vildagliptin and a low (2 mg/day) dose of glimepiride.
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10.1007/s13300-014-0082-y
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  abstract     = {{In a previously published study, vildagliptin showed a reduced risk of hypoglycemia versus glimepiride as add-on therapy to metformin at similar efficacy. Glimepiride was titrated from a starting dose of 2 mg/day to a maximum dose of 6 mg/day. It is usually assumed that the increased hypoglycemia with glimepiride was driven by the 6 mg/day dose; it was therefore of interest to assess whether the risk of hypoglycemia is also different between vildagliptin and a low (2 mg/day) dose of glimepiride.}},
  author       = {{Ahrén, Bo and Foley, James Edward and Dejager, Sylvie and Akacha, Mouna and Shao, Qing and Heimann, Guenter and Dworak, Markus and Schweizer, Anja}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{09}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders}},
  title        = {{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?}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/3020791/5322672}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/s13300-014-0082-y}},
  year         = {{2014}},
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