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1. A method of using linagliptin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with metformin, and optionally one or more further active agents selected from the group consisting of insulin, a sulfonylurea, an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, and an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB), to treat a type 2 diabetes patient having chronic kidney disease (CKD) up to stage 3 and/or having estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR;
- mL/minute/1.73 m2) levels down to 45 or down to 30.
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The present invention relates to a certain DPP-4 inhibitor for use in combination with metformin in CKD patients.
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1. A method of using linagliptin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with metformin, and optionally one or more further active agents selected from the group consisting of insulin, a sulfonylurea, an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, and an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB), to treat a type 2 diabetes patient having chronic kidney disease (CKD) up to stage 3 and/or having estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR;
- mL/minute/1.73 m2) levels down to 45 or down to 30.
- 2. A method of using linagliptin, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with metformin, and optionally one or more further active agents selected from the group consisting of insulin, a sulfonylurea, an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, and an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB), to treat, to slow the progression or to delay the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or a diabetic complication selected from the group consisting of chronic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, micro- and macroalbuminuria, renal impairment, retinopathy, neuropathy, and a macrovascular complication which is a cardio- or cerebrovascular event, in a type 2 diabetes patient having chronic kidney disease (CKD) in stage 3 and/or having estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 30 to 60 mL/minute/1.73 m2.
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