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SUBMITTER: Kaushal S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3978932 | biostudies-other | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kaushal Shaveta S Singh Harmanjit H Thangaraju Pugazhenthan P Singh Jasbir J
North American journal of medical sciences 20140301 3
Diabetes Mellitus continues to be a major non- communicable disease with global burden of 366 million at present and projected to increase to 439 to 552 million by 2030, India being the hub of diabetes. Sodium glucose transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors presents a new class of anti-diabetic drugs having an insulin-independent mechanism that offers a considerable advantage of increasing urinary glucose excretion without inducing hypoglycemia and promoting weight loss due to loss of 300 to 400kcal/da ...[more]