Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. From the start – combination therapy
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Effects of combination lipid therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus.
BACKGROUND We investigated whether combination therapy with a statin plus a fibrate, as compared with statin monotherapy, would reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus who were at high risk for cardiovascular disease. METHODS We randomly assigned 5518 patients with type 2 diabetes who were being treated with open-label simvastatin to receive either ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes mellitus
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2072-0378,2072-0351
DOI: 10.14341/dm9867