Type 2 diabetes – case reports Case report series

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Paweł Piątkiewicz

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For many years the treatment of type 2 diabetes was based primarily on the metformin and a sulfonylurea. If therapy with oral medication was not sufficient to achieve correct glycemic control, the next step was to include insulin therapy. The patient was afraid to change treatment, the need for injection and the risk of complications (especially the risk of hypoglycemia). Since the few years, the market offers a new oral hypoglycemic drugs, which allow patients to postpone the moment of including insulin treatment. In this work a few examples from clinical practice, wherein the normoglycemia is obtained through the use of DPP-4 inhibitor, were presented.

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Piątkiewicz, P. (2015). Type 2 diabetes – case reports. Medycyna Faktow (J EBM), 8(4(29), 14-21. Retrieved from https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/jebm/article/view/2278
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