Pregnant women: No unambiguous risks are known. However, diabetic women should usually be treated with insulin during pregnancy.

Nursing mothers: Is excreted through breast milk. Risk is not clear: metformin is better avoided.

Children: No indications. Diabetes usually requires treatment with insulin in children and adolescents.

Elderly people: Very close observance of the contraindications is necessary. Better avoided in high age.

Renal failure: Contraindicated! A normal creatinine concentration is required for a treatment. This should be monitored regularly during treatment (e.g. every 6 months).

Liver insufficiency: Contraindicated when insufficiency is advanced.

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