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- 31/03/2021
What is the best type 2 diabetes medicine?
Answered by 1 Apollo Doctors
Metformin, in the absence of contraindications or intolerability, should be the first-line agent to treat patients with type 2 diabetes.
Dr. Ibrahim Suggests...
Consult a Endocrinologist
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