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Man, 52 years old, 86 kg, is treated for type 2 diabetes. He uses metformin 850 mg twice daily (0-1-1). At the pharmaceutical appointment the patient brought a paper with notes of the result of his blood test (case image). With these notes the patient asked me why he used metformin and the result of glycemia gave 92 mg/dl. Based on the data presented in the figure, I answered the following questions:

  1. What is the importance of non-pharmacological measures for the treatment of diabetes?
  2. Why the use of metformin twice a day, considering that the blood glucose is normal?
  3. Why the achievement of glycated hemoglobin? Now I want to know the Figure 1 community, what would your answers be to this patient?

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