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Bolstering your armamentarium with SGLT2 inhibitors.

Nurse Pract

October 2017

Lucia M. Novak is a director at Riverside Diabetes Center, Riverside Medical Associates, P.A., Riverdale, Md. Davida F. Kruger is an NP at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Mich.

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors have a unique mechanism of action in the kidneys that causes glucosuria, which lowers plasma glucose. They are also associated with reduced body weight and BP, and a low incidence of hypoglycemia. This article reviews the pharmacologic profiles and clinical implications of canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, and empagliflozin.

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Bolstering your armamentarium with SGLT2 inhibitors.

Nurse Pract

June 2017

Lucia M. Novak is a director at Riverside Diabetes Center, Riverside Medical Associates, P.A., Riverdale, Md. Davida F. Kruger is an NP at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Mich.

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors have a unique mechanism of action in the kidneys that causes glucosuria, which lowers plasma glucose. They are also associated with reduced body weight, BP, and a low incidence of hypoglycemia. The pharmacologic profiles/clinical implications of canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, and empagliflozin are discussed in this article.

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