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Le medicament du mois. Glucovance dans le diabete de type 2, une association fixe metformine-glibenclamide pour faciliter le traitement d'une maladie bipolaire.
Scheen, André
2003In Revue Médicale de Liège, 58 (6), p. 448-52
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Keywords :
Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications/drug therapy; Glyburide/administration & dosage/pharmacology; Humans; Hypoglycemic Agents/administration & dosage/pharmacology; Insulin Resistance; Metformin/administration & dosage/pharmacology; Patient Compliance; Periodicity
Abstract :
[en] Glucovance, recently launched by Merck-Lipha (Glucovance 500 mg/2.5 mg and Glucovance 500 mg/5 mg), is a fixed combined therapy of a sulphonylurea (glibenclamide 2.5 or 5 mg) and a biguanide (metformin 500 mg), indicated for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in adult patients. The only current official indication in Belgium is the substitution of a dual therapy with metformin and glibenclamide in patients with a stable and adequate metabolic control. The fixed combination aims at simplifying patient's treatment in order to improve compliance despite polymedication. In addition, it allows targeting synergistically the two main abnormalities of type 2 diabetes, i.e. the insulin secretory defect and the insulin resistance.
Disciplines :
Endocrinology, metabolism & nutrition
Author, co-author :
Scheen, André  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Diabétologie, nutrition et maladie métaboliques - Médecine interne générale
Language :
French
Title :
Le medicament du mois. Glucovance dans le diabete de type 2, une association fixe metformine-glibenclamide pour faciliter le traitement d'une maladie bipolaire.
Alternative titles :
[en] Medication of the month. Glucovance in type 2 diabetes, a fixed combination of metformin-glibenclamide for the treatment of a bipolar metabolic disease
Publication date :
2003
Journal title :
Revue Médicale de Liège
ISSN :
0370-629X
eISSN :
2566-1566
Publisher :
Université de Liège. Revue Médicale de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Volume :
58
Issue :
6
Pages :
448-52
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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