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2. Metformin may be as safe as insulin to treat diabetes during ...

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   Experts say that metformin and insulin can also be used together to help women with type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes manage blood glucose levels during pregnancy. Metformin is just as safe ...

3. Is There a Best Time to Take Metformin? - AOL

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   If you’ve been prescribed metformin, it may be because you have prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, weight gain issues caused by antipsychotic medication or polycystic ovary ...

4. Metformin - Wikipedia

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   A total review of metformin use during pregnancy compared to insulin alone found good short-term safety for both the mother and baby, but safety in the longer term is unclear. [61] Several observational studies and randomized controlled trials found metformin to be as effective and safe as insulin for the management of gestational diabetes.

5. Diabetes and pregnancy - Wikipedia

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   Pre-gestational diabetes can be classified as Type 1 or Type 2 depending on the physiological mechanism. Type 1 diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune disorder leading to destruction of insulin-producing cell in the pancreas; type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with obesity and results from a combination of insulin resistance and insufficient insulin production.

6. Gestational diabetes - Wikipedia

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   Gestational diabetes is a condition in which a woman without diabetes develops high blood sugar levels during pregnancy. [2] Gestational diabetes generally results in few symptoms; [2] however, obesity increases the rate of pre-eclampsia, cesarean sections, and embryo macrosomia, as well as gestational diabetes. [2]

7. Are Diabetes Drugs Really Safe (& Reliable) for Weight Loss?

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   It was approved by the FDA in 1994 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. ... GIP/GLP-1s, and metformin are considered safe and effective when used as prescribed. That said, no medication is ...

8. Diabetes medication - Wikipedia

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   They work best with patients over 40 years old who have had diabetes mellitus for under ten years. They cannot be used with type 1 diabetes, or diabetes of pregnancy. They can be safely used with metformin or glitazones. The primary side-effect is hypoglycemia, which appears to happen more commonly with sulfonylureas than with other treatments ...

9. Drugs in pregnancy - Wikipedia

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   [14] [12] However, all NSAIDs showed association with structural cardiac defects with usage during the early weeks of pregnancy. When ibuprofen and naproxen are used within the third trimester, there is a significant increase in the risk of premature closure of the ductus arteriosus with primary pulmonary hypertension in the newborn. [ 12 ]