(HealthDay News) — For patients with type 2 diabetes on background glimepiride therapy, but not metformin, addition of ranolazine is associated with a significant reduction in hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), ...

Linagliptin plus metformin combination was as effective at lowering hemoglobin A1c as glimepiride plus metformin, and with weight loss and less hypoglycemia SAN DIEGO, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Glimepiride oral tablet is available as a generic drug and as a brand-name drug. Brand name: Amaryl. Glimepiride comes as a tablet you take by mouth. Glimepiride is used to treat type 2 diabetes. It ...

"I think these are very interesting findings, even if the study wasn't powered for cardiovascular end points," said lead investigator Dr Baptist Gallwitz (Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany).

Of the 37 million Americans with diabetes, approximately 90% to 95% have type 2 diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a clinical trial directly comparing different ...

Although T2D hospitalization rates were nearly identical across treatment groups, risk for subsequent hospitalization was lower with liraglutide vs glimepiride. Among people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) ...