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ea0026p677 | Diabetes therapy | ECE2011

Comparative study of combination therapy between metformin plus thiazolinedione (TZD) and metformin plus DPP-4 inhibitor in type 2 diabetes

Kim Yonghyun , Shin Donghyun , Lee Eunjong

The pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes is explained by increment of insulin resistance and dysfunction of insulin secretion. If improvement of insulin resistance is not adequate in the early stage of diabetes especially in this country with more severe basal insulin secretion defect from the very beginning, diabetes rapidly progress to more aggressive stage with relative insulin deficiency. The most proper method of improving insulin resistance by prescription is metformin from t...