Evaluation of Vitamin B12 status in type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients on Metformin therapy

Background: B12 deficiency is a silent epidemic with serious consequences. Long term use of metformin has been associated with malabsorption of vitamin B12 leading to its deficiency along with increased homocysteine levels. With this background we designed this study to assess the status of vitamin...

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Main Authors: Ananda Vayaravel Cassinadane, Ramesh Ramaswamy, Shaik Anwar Hussain, Radhika Govindarajan, Abu Raghavan Srinivasan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara 2018-03-01
Series:Asian Journal of Medical Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/AJMS/article/view/18806