Should metformin be prescribed to overweight adolescents in whom dietary/behavioural modifications have not helped?
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 91 (9), 793-794
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2006.098962
Abstract
In obese hyperinsulinaemic adolescents [patient] is metformin [intervention] effective in promoting weight loss [outcome]?Keywords
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