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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes treated with acarbose experienced similar improvements in HbA1c as those treated with metformin, according to data from a randomized trial conducted in China.
?Robust evidence for metformin has been generated mostly from white populations with extrapolations for other populations; few studies have assessed metformin in other populations, especially in eastern Asian patients with lower BMI and exaggerated postprandial glucose excursion,? researchers wrote in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, noting that alpha-glucosidase inhibitors such as acarbose are commonly used as monotherapy in Asian countries.
http://www.healio.com/endocrinology...e-noninferior-to-metformin-in-type-2-diabetes
?Robust evidence for metformin has been generated mostly from white populations with extrapolations for other populations; few studies have assessed metformin in other populations, especially in eastern Asian patients with lower BMI and exaggerated postprandial glucose excursion,? researchers wrote in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, noting that alpha-glucosidase inhibitors such as acarbose are commonly used as monotherapy in Asian countries.
http://www.healio.com/endocrinology...e-noninferior-to-metformin-in-type-2-diabetes