Wk 16: Diabetes management Flashcards
What do you take when you experience GI disturbance on metformin?
Change to MR prep
When would you switch to GLP-1 mimetic?
If triple therapy w/ metformin + 2 other oral drugs ineffective:
- BMI >35
- BMI <35 + insulin has occupational implications + weight loss
What is an example of a SU?
Gliclazide
What is an example of a SGLT2 inhibitor?
Flozin: Dapagliflozin
What is an example of a DPP4 inhibitor?
Gliptin: sitagliptin
What is an example of a GLP-1 mimetic?
Tide;
- Oral: semaglutide
- Injection: exenatide
What are the risks of metformin?
- Lactic acidosis
Renal impairment:
- <45 max 1g
- <30 stop
What is lactic acidosis?
- Risk factor: dehydration + illness
- Symptoms: nausea, thirst, vom, abdominal pain
What are the risks of SU?
- Hypo risk (esp renal impairment)
- Weight gain
What are the benefits of DPP-4 inhibitors?
- Hypo risk: low
- Weight: neutral
- Linagliptin no dose red in renal
What are the risks of DPP4-inhibitors?
- Least effective control
- Pancreatitis: report severe abd pain
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- IBD + HF
What are the benefits of GLP-1 mimetics?
- Weight loss
- CV benefits if CVD + injection
- Renal benfits: slows albuminuria
What are the risks of GLP-1 mimetics?
- Pancreatitis
- Cholangiocarcinoma
- GI disturbance
What are the benefits of pioglitazone?
- Hypo risk: low
- Safe in renal impairment
What are the risks of pioglitazone?
Review at 3-6 months
- Weight gain
- CI HF (insulin/Hx MI)
- CI bladder cancer: report dysuria, urinary urgency
- Fracture