Miscellaneous antidiabetic agents
What are Miscellaneous antidiabetic agents?
Antidiabetic agents aim to achieve normoglycemia and relieve diabetes symptoms, such as thirst, polyuria, weight loss, ketoacidosis. The long term goals are to prevent the development of or slow the progression of long term complications of the disease. Miscellaneous antidiabetic agents includes all antidiabetic agents not classified elsewhere.
What are Miscellaneous antidiabetic agents? Antidiabetic agents aim to achieve normoglycemia and relieve diabetes symptoms, such as thirst, polyuria, weight loss, ketoacidosis. The long term goals are to prevent the development of or slow the progression of long term complications of the disease.
The major classes of oral antidiabetic medications include biguanides, sulfonylureas, meglitinide, thiazolidinedione (TZD), dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT2) inhibitors, and α-glucosidase inhibitors.
Metformin is considered the most commonly prescribed oral medication for type 2 diabetes. It can also be combined with other type 2 diabetes medications. It’s an ingredient in the following medications: metformin-alogliptin (Kazano)
Miscellaneous antibiotics are used to treat infections caused by susceptible bacteria or other susceptible organisms, usually when other more common agents are not effective or not tolerated. There is not a single antibiotic that will treat all infectious disease
Antidiabetic agent: A substance that helps a person with diabetes control their level of glucose (sugar) in the blood. Antidiabetic agents include insulin and the oral hypoglycemic agents.





