Prevalence of Vitamin B12 deficiency in patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus on metformin: A case control study from Pakistan

INTRODUCTION: Diabetes Mellitus is the most common endocrine disorder and metformin is the most commonly prescribed oral hypoglycemic agent. Metformin is well known to cause viamin B12 deficiency due to effect on calcium-dependent membrane action in the terminal ileum leading to malabsorption of vit...

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Autores principales: Iftikhar, Raheel, Kamran, Sultan Mehmood, Qadir, Adnan, Iqbal, Zohaib, Usman, Hassan bin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24711867
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.16.67.2800

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24711867
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2013.16.67.2800

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