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Most people with type 2 diabetes are started with doses of 100mg/day but this may need adjusting based on the patient's response and tolerance after initiation of treatment
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Its relevance comes not from an established clinical role, but from the way it has been reported to influence selected cellular processes commonly activated during tissue stress, injury-response signaling, and experimental repair models
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