Cardiovascular safety of combination therapies with incretin based drugs and metformin compared with a combination of metformin and sulfonylurea in type 2 diabetes mellitus – a retrospective nationwide study

ConclusionIncretin‐based drugs combined with metformin were safe compared with conventional combinations of glucose‐lowering therapy. Use of incretin‐based therapy may be target for strategies to lower cardiovascular risk in type‐2 diabetes, although it should be recognized that the multivariable analysis may not have fully accounted for important baseline differences.

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Source: Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism - May 14, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Ulrik Madvig Mogensen, Charlotte Andersson, Emil Loldrup Fosbøl, Tina Ken Schramm, Allan Vaag, Nikolai Madrid Scheller, Christian Torp‐Pedersen, Gunnar Gislason, Lars Køber Tags: ORIGINAL PAPER Source Type: research