Table 3.

Most frequent adverse events by study group in the safety population (n = 105)

Adverse event*	Miglitol (n = 59)	Placebo (n = 39)	P value
Abdominal discomfort†	10 (16.95)	2 (5.13)	0.084
Diarrhea‡	20 (33.90)	7 (17.95)	0.117
Hypoglycemia‡	20 (33.90)	17 (43.59)	0.333
Other‡	9 (15.25)	13 (33.33)	0.036§

* Data are presented as n (%) of all adverse events compared with ^‡ Chi-square or ^† Fisher exact test

^§ P values < 0.05 indicate that the incidence of a specific adverse event was significantly different between the 2 groups