“…While 12 studies were conducted in Europe (Holstein et al, 2005(Holstein et al, , 2011Ragia et al, 2009Ragia et al, , 2012Ragia et al, , 2014Tarasova et al, 2012;Dujic et al, 2015Dujic et al, , 2016aDujic et al, ,b, 2018Dawed et al, 2016), three were in Asia ( Kahn et al, 2006;Sato et al, 2010;Gökalp et al, 2011) and one was in the US (Ruaño et al, 2009). Five of these studies comprising of 5,438 subjects were conducted to investigate association between genetic polymorphisms and metformin-related GI adverse effects (Tarasova et al, 2012;Dujic et al, 2015Dujic et al, , 2016aDawed et al, 2019). Association between genetic polymorphisms and the risks of sulfonylurea-induced hypoglycemia was evaluated in nine studies comprising of 1,944 subjects (Holstein et al, 2005(Holstein et al, , 2011Ragia et al, 2009Ragia et al, , 2012Ragia et al, , 2014Sato et al, 2010;Gökalp et al, 2011;Dujic et al, 2018).…”