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Researchers Suggest Diabetics Need to Take More than the RDA of B12
Posted by Heather Caruso, This article was posted in News/Research at Thu, January 26, 2012 00:00
A new study has argued that people who have developed type 2 diabetes and are taking the oral drug metformin to treat it should take more than the recommended daily allowance of vitamin B12.
The research, which was published in Diabetes Care, assessed data from the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) in the United States between 1999 and 2006. The NHANES data showed that the prevalence of biochemical B12 deficiency was greatest for people with type 2 diabetes taking metformin compared with those with type 2 diabetes but not taking metformin and those without diabetes.
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