Can J Diabetes 2022 Feb 3. Epub 2022 Feb 3.
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address:
Objectives: Contemporary guidelines suggest relaxed glycemic targets in populations with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) at risk of hypoglycemia, including people with multimorbidity, limited life expectancy, or frailty. However, overtreatment remains commonplace. To inform safe deprescribing, a previous systematic review investigated the benefits and harms of deprescribing antihyperglycemics, but identified only limited, very low-quality evidence. Read More