This report focuses on a 16-year-old girl afflicted with hypoglycemia after administration of medications for gastrointestinal symptoms. Repaglinide-induced hypoglycemia was suspected when a tablet of repaglinide was noted in the drug package that she had been given. As the use of various types of oral hypoglycemic agents has increased, a definitive diagnosis of drug-induced hypoglycemia has be...

Objective: To evaluate drug utilization pattern of oral hypoglycemic agents in Type-2 diabetic outpatients. Materials and Methods: A prospective study was carried out in 202 out patients for a period of 9 months in a tertiary care hospital. Patients treated with oral hypoglycemic agents were used for the study. The demographic data, disease data and utilization of different classes of oral hypo...

INTRODUCTION Traditionally, insulin has been the gold standard in the management of Type 2 diabetes in pregnancy and gestational diabetes. However, insulin therapy can be inconvenient because of the needs for multiple injections, its associated cost, pain at the injection site, need for refrigeration, and skillful handling of the syringes. This has led to the exploration of oral hypoglycemic ag...

This DESG Teaching Letter was written by the DESG Executive commitee: Executive commitee: Dr. J.M. BOAVIDA, MD, Lisbon – Portugal (President); Dr. A. BROOKS, MD, Winchester – UK (Vice-President); Dr. I. HARMAN-BOEHM, MD, Sheva – Israel. (Director Educational Strategies); Ms. D. VARAKLA, Athens – Greece (Honorary Secretary); Dr. A. BALDELLI, MD, Rome – Italy (Honorary Treasurer); Dr. R. CHLUP, M...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review the evidence for the prevention of type 2 diabetes by pharmacological therapies. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Randomized controlled trials and cohort studies examining the effect of oral hypoglycemic agents, antiobesity agents, antihypertensive agents, statins, fibrates, and estrogen on the incidence of type 2 diabetes were identified from MEDLINE, EMBASE, th...

Herbs and herbal products are considered to be safer and people mix it often with the oral hypoglycemic agent in diabetes therapy. But numerous reports say that every combination of herbs and drugs is not safe. Some combinations may be beneficial and some may be harmful also. So before taking any herbal remedies with oral hypoglycemic agent, patient should consult physician. In this paper we ar...

background: the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing in malaysia, with most patients poorly controlled. hence, this study aimed to determine nutritional and metabolic status as well as blood pressure of malaysian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and identify associated risk factors for poor glycemic control. materials and methods: a total of 104 type 2 diabetic patients were recrui...