Diabetes: the place of new therapies
Until the discovery of insulin in 1921 there were no effective treatments for diabetes mellitus. After the advent of long-acting insulin, the first oral agents, sulfonylureas became available in the mid-1950s, quickly followed (outside of the United States) by metformin. It was then another three de...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2042018818807599 |