Hypoglycaemia with pioglitazone: analysis of data from the Prescription-Event Monitoring study

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between patients' characteristics, use of concomitant anti-diabetic therapies and the incidence of hypoglycaemia reported by general practitioners during the first 9 months of the treatment with pioglitazone.

Keywords

• cox proportional-hazard model
• diabetes mellitus type 2
• diabetic complication
• hypoglycaemia
• pioglitazone
• thiazolidinedione