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Amaryl (glimepiride)

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News & Research:

• Diabetes drug 'protects arteries' - BBC News, 3/30/07 - "After 72 week, the thickness of the arteries increased by an average of 0.012 millimetres in the glimepiride group ... But among the patients given pioglitazone, average thickness actually fell by 0.001 millimetres ... Pioglitazone patients also recorded lower levels of sugar in their blood, and higher levels of beneficial HDL cholesterol"
• duetact(TM) (pioglitazone HCl and glimepiride) Now Available in U.S. Pharmacies - Doctor's Guide, 11/7/06
• Ranbaxy Gains Tentative Approval to Market Glimepiride Tablets - Doctor's Guide, 7/21/05
• Repaglinide Improves Insulin Secretion More Effectively Than Glimepiride in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes - Doctor's Guide, 4/30/04
• Significant Decrease in Body Weight, Body Mass Index in Type 2 Diabetics Assocated with Glimepiride - Doctor's Guide, 11/18/03
• Glimepiride Produces Remarkable Improvement In Insulin Resistance - Doctor's Guide, 2/10/03

Abstracts:

• Effect of Pioglitazone Compared With Glimepiride on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Trial - JAMA, 12/6/06 - "Carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a marker of coronary atherosclerosis and independently predicts cardiovascular events ... Over an 18-month treatment period in patients with type 2 DM, pioglitazone slowed progression of CIMT compared with glimepiride"

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