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Norma Pérez, BPharm MSc, Jocelyne Moisan, PhD, Caroline Sirois, BPharm MSc, Paul Poirier, MD PhD and Jean-Pierre Grégoire, PhD MPH

From the Unité de recherche en santé des populations (Pérez, Moisan, Sirois, Grégoire), Centre de recherche du centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec; the Faculty of Pharmacy (Moisan, Sirois, Poirier, Grégoire), Université Laval, and the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute (Poirier), Hôpital Laval, Québec, Que.


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  		Table 1: Characteristics of elderly patients (n = 69 674) who initiated oral antidiabetes therapy during the study period

 

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  		Figure 1: Selection of the study population. *Patients who received an oral antidiabetes drug between Jan. 1, 1998, and Dec. 24, 2004, and who had not taken an oral antidiabetes drug in the 1 year before the date of the first prescription.

 

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  		Figure 2: Initiation of insulin among patients who started to take an oral antidiabetes drug during the study period.

 

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  		Table 2: Factors associated with the initiation of insulin therapy in elderly patients (n = 69 674) who initiated oral antidiabetes therapy during the study period