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        <journal-title>American Journal of Pharmacy and Health Research</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">AJPHR</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2321-3647</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AJPHR407011</article-id>
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        <article-title>Prescription Pattern of Anti Diabetics In Diabetic Patients</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Khan</surname>
            <given-names>Pathan AmanUlla</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Noor</surname>
            <given-names>Dr. Sobia</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Fatima</surname>
            <given-names>Ayesha Farhath</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Swati</surname>
            <given-names>N.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Khan</surname>
            <given-names>Nawaz Mohammed</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="aff1">Department of Pharmacy Practice, Anwar-Ul-Uloom College Of Pharmacy, Hyderabad</aff>
      <aff id="aff2">Department Of Pharmaceutics, Anwar-Ul-Uloom College Of Pharmacy, Hyderabad</aff>
      <aff id="aff3">Department Of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Anwar-Ul-Uloom College Of Pharmacy, Hyderabad</aff>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2016-07-01">
        <month>07</month>
        <day>01</day>
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>7</issue>
      <abstract>
        <p>Diabetes is a chronic disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The present study objective is to assess the prescription pattern of anti diabetics in diabetic patients. A prospective observational study was carried out for a period of one month in the department of medicine of BMCH&amp;RC teaching hospital. The study result shows that among 56 patient’s 26 (46.4%) males and 30 (51.78%) females were enrolled.  Among these 17 (30.35%) were in the age group of 61-70 years. Among the various anti diabetics, sulfonylureas were accounted for 8.77%. Among the study Population, 40 (70.17%) patients were treated with insulin Inj and 10 (17.54%) of the total drugs were fixed dose combination. our study concluded that insulin and sulfonylurea’s were the most commonly prescribed and more patients were treated with poly-pharmacy. The average numbers of drugs per prescription were 6. Study was conducted for a short period of time hence the no. of patients were less.</p>
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        <kwd>Diabetes</kwd>
        <kwd>Poly pharmacy</kwd>
        <kwd>Prescription patterns</kwd>
        <kwd>Sulphonylureas</kwd>
        <kwd>Biguanides.</kwd>
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