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Pancreatitis: a class effect for the GLP-1 mimetics?

Dr. Bill Quick
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
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As readers of this blog are aware, Byetta (also called exenatide), the first approved medication in the class of diabetes drugs called "GLP-1 mimetics" or "GLP-1 receptor agonists", has been associated with a potentially fatal complication called pancreatitis. No one has been quite sure whether the p...
  1. pancreatitic mimetics?
    frankenduf
    Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 03:23 PM

    Thanks for the vigilant reporting :)- I would add that if any history of alcohol or pancreatitis, or any family history of pancreatitis, you may want to consider a different medicine as well

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