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Vitamin B12 deficiency in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus using metformin and the associated factors in Saudi Arabia

Roqaih R. Al Saeed and Muneera A. Baraja
Saudi Medical Journal February 2021, 42 (2) 161-165; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.2.25693
Roqaih R. Al Saeed
From the Department of Family Medicine (Al Saeed, Baraja), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center/King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Muneera A. Baraja
From the Department of Family Medicine (Al Saeed, Baraja), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center/King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 42 no. 2 161-165
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.2.25693
PubMed 
33563734

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 11, 2020
  • Accepted December 30, 2020
  • Published online February 9, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Roqaih R. Al Saeed, MBBS, SBFM⇑ and
  2. Muneera A. Baraja, SBFM, ABFM
  1. From the Department of Family Medicine (Al Saeed, Baraja), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center/King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Roqaih R. Al Saeed, Department of Family Medicine, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center/King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: roqaih.alsaad{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9865-5539
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