How to start and continuing empagliflozin therapy in the general practitioner’s office? Review article

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Bartosz J. Sapilak
Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas
Grzegorz Dzida

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At work we discuss the conclusions of the three-year EMPA-REG OUTCOME study in which patients with second type diabetes with high cardiovascular risk were treated with addition of empagliflozin.

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Sapilak , B. J., Mastalerz-Migas, A., & Dzida , G. (2019). How to start and continuing empagliflozin therapy in the general practitioner’s office?. Medycyna Faktow (J EBM), 12(3(44), 261-264. https://doi.org/10.24292/01.MF.0319.13
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