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Researchers at INSERM target type 2 diabetes

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, August 16th, 2010

New investigation results, 'Drug reimbursement and GPs' prescribing decisions: a randomized case-vignette study about the pharmacotherapy of obesity associated with type 2 diabetes: how GPs react to drug reimbursement,' are detailed in a study published in Fundamental & Clinical Pharmacology. "This study sought to identify the effect of drug reimbursability--a decision made in France by the National Authority for Health--on physicians' prescribing practices for a diet drug such as rimonabant, approved for obese or overweight patients with type-2 diabetes. A cross-sectional survey of French general practitioners (GPs) presented a case-vignette about a patient for whom this drug is...

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