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Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes

March 1, 2014 (Issue: 139)

Superseded by The Medical Letter "Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes" - Issue 1663, November 14, 2022

The goal of drug therapy for type 2 diabetes is to achieve and maintain a near-normal A1C concentration without inducing hypoglycemia; the target is generally an A1C of 10,000 patients with type 2 diabetes, with or at high-risk for cardiovascular...more

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14. Exenatide (Byetta) for type 2 diabetes. Med Lett Drugs Ther 2005; 47:45.

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