BACKGROUND: Oral anti-diabetic drugs (OADs) are often advised for initial treatment for patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Their effects on glycemic control, lipid profile, insulin resistance and beta cell...
Recently, a debate has been raised regarding the place and the role of sulfonylureas (SU) amongst the armamentarium of drugs available for treatment of hyperglycemia in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus. With the...
We investigated whether long-term glimepiride (GP) monotherapy improves insulin resistance and exerts a beneficial effect on beta cell function, as compared with glibenclamide (GC). One hundred Japanese Type 2 diabeti...
Background: Several recent studies have shown that treatment with therapeutic lifestyle changes, and/or several drugs retard progression of prediabetes to type 2 diabetes. However, none of these studies used a Sulfony...