{"id":579876,"date":"2010-05-24T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/use-of-diabetes-medication-linked-to-vitamin-b-12-deficiency\/"},"modified":"2010-05-24T23:01:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T03:01:40","slug":"use-of-diabetes-medication-linked-to-vitamin-b-12%c2%a0deficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579876","title":{"rendered":"Use Of Diabetes Medication Linked To Vitamin B-12\u00a0Deficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Diabetic+Man_1961_19794017_0_0_11273_300.jpg\" alt=\"Use of diabetes medication linked to vitamin B-12 deficiency \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Diabetic patients who are prescribed the drug metformin may be at an increased risk of developing a vitamin B-12 deficiency, according to a new European study. <\/p>\n<p>Lead author Coen Stehouwer believes that individuals who take the medication should routinely monitor their vitamin B-12 levels and may want to consider taking nutrient supplements.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, the research team recruited 390 patients with type-2 diabetes and assigned them to take either metformin or a placebo three times each day for four years. <\/p>\n<p>At the point of follow-up, participants who were prescribed the diabetes medication experienced a 19 percent reduction in their vitamin B-12 levels. A total of 17 once-healthy participants developed a severe nutrient deficiency over the course of the research. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our study shows that it is reasonable to assume harm will eventually occur in some patients with metformin-induced low vitamin B-12 levels,&quot; said Stehouwer. &quot;Our data provide a strong case for routine assessment of vitamin B-12 levels during long-term treatment with metformin.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Vitamin B-12 deficient patients often experience fatigue, anemia and significant mental changes. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19794017-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19794017\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetic patients who are prescribed the drug metformin may be at an increased risk of developing a vitamin B-12 deficiency, according to a new European study. Lead author Coen Stehouwer believes that individuals who take the medication should routinely monitor their vitamin B-12 levels and may want to consider taking nutrient supplements. For the study, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}