Dabetes 2 treatment
Part 1 – Part 2
In Part 2 of our series Oral medications for diabetes 2 treatment we review biguanides, a second type of medication to treat type 2 diabetes. At the present time, the only biguanide available in the United States is Glucophage, also known by its generic name, metformin.
A short history of metformin
In the 1960s, a precursor of metformin, DBI-TD (also known as phenformin), was introduced as a twice-a-day medication for the control of gluc
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