What is Jardiance (empagliflozin)? Jardiance is an oral medication used to improve glycemia (blood glucose) control in patients with type 2 diabetes. Jardiance is a sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT2) inhibitor. It is similar to canagliflozin (Invokana) and dapagliflozin (Farxiga). What brand names are available for empagliflozin? Jardiance is the brand name available for empagliflozin in the …
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What is liraglutide? What are the uses for liraglutide? Victoza is used with diet and exercise to improve control of blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. Victoza should not be used for treating diabetic ketoacidosis or type 1 diabetes and should not be used as the first agent for treating diabetes after failure of diet and exercise. What …
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What is Trulicity (dulaglutide)? What is Trulicity used for? Trulicity is used with diet and exercise to improve control of blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Trulicity should not be used for treating diabetic ketoacidosis or type 1 diabetes. What brand names are available for Trulicity dulaglutide ? Trulicity Is Trulicity dulaglutide available as a generic drug? …
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What is tolazamide? How does it work (mechanism of action)? Tolazamide is used with diet and exercise to reduce blood glucose levels in adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Other diabetes drugs are sometimes used in combination with tolazamide if needed. Tolazamides initial effect is to increase beta-cell insulin secretion. Tolazamide causes the pancreas to produce insulin and increases …
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What is rosiglitazone, and how does it work (mechanism of action)? Rosiglitazone is an oral drug that reduces the amount of sugar (glucose) in the blood. It is used for treating patients with type 2 diabetes and is in a class of anti-diabetic drugs called thiazolidinediones. The other member of this class is pioglitazone (Actos). Insulin is a hormone produced …
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Low blood sugar facts Hypoglycemia occurs when there is not enough sugar (glucose) in the blood. Hypoglycemia is the medical term for low blood sugar. It typically occurs as a side effect of medications for diabetes. The normal range of blood glucose is from 70 to 100 mg/dL in an individual without diabetes, Most people will feel the effects and …
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What is nateglinide, and how does it work (mechanism of action)? Nateglinide is an oral drug used to lower blood sugar (glucose) levels in type 2 diabetes. It is in a class of drugs called meglitinides which also includes repaglinide (Prandin). Approximately 90% of patients with diabetes have type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes usually occurs in adults and is …
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What is acarbose, and how does it work? Acarbose is a prescription oral drug that is used to control blood glucose (sugar) levels in people type 2 diabetes in conjunction with diet, exercise, and other diabetes drugs, for example, metformin (Glucophage) or insulin. It belongs to a class of drugs called alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, which also includes miglitol (Glyset). Carbohydrates that …
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What is diabetes? Diabetes is a set of related diseases in which the body cannot regulate the amount of sugar (specifically, glucose) in the blood. What are the types of diabetes? The related diseases of diabetes include: Type 1 diabetes Type 2 diabetes Gestational diabetes Prediabetes Metabolic syndrome (syndrome X) Insulin resistance (a condition that precedes the development of type …
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What is lixisenatide, and how does it work? Lixisenatide is an injectable drug that reduces the level of sugar (glucose) in the blood. It is used for the treatment type 2 diabetes and is similar to exenatide (Byetta), liraglutide (Victoza), dulaglutide (Trulicity), and abliglutide (Tanzeum). Lixisenatide belongs in a class of drugs called incretin mimetics because these drugs mimic the …
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