Patients: 22 045 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus pretreated with anti-hyperglycaemic drugs excluding glimepiride and patients not treated with any antihyperglycaemic drug or treated with ...

The mean initial glimepiride dose for the whole patient group was 1.6 ± 0.8mg daily. During the observation period the dose was increased to a mean of 2.2 ± 1.1mg. As shown in table IV ...