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Diabetes medicines
The term 'diabetes' covers a range of medical conditions that affect how well your body can digest and use glucose (sugar). People with insulin-dependent diabetes, also known as type 1 diabetes, need daily injections of insulin to manage their condition. Most other diabetes medicines are used to manage type 2 diabetes. There are several different classes of medicine which all work in different ways. Often a combination of more than one medicine is needed to control blood sugar levels. Commonly used diabetes medicines include gliclazide, metformin and empagliflozin.
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- Acarbose for diabetes
- Alogliptin tablets for diabetes
- Canagliflozin tablets for diabetes
- Dapagliflozin tablets
- Dulaglutide for type 2 diabetes
- Empagliflozin tablets
- Exenatide for diabetes
- Glibenclamide for diabetes
- Gliclazide
- Glimepiride tablets for diabetes
- Glipizide
- Glyburide for diabetes
- Insulin
- Linagliptin tablets for diabetes
- Liraglutide for diabetes
- Lixisenatide for diabetes
- Metformin for diabetes
- Nateglinide for diabetes
- Pioglitazone tablets for diabetes
- Repaglinide for diabetes
- Saxagliptin for diabetes
- Semaglutide
- Sitagliptin for diabetes
- Tolbutamide
- Vildagliptin for diabetes