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Recent Advances in Therapy of Diabetes
Recent Advances in Therapy of Diabetes
diabetes
• Exenatide
• Liraglutide
• Long acting exenatide
• Progressive weight loss continuing for 82
weeks. Patients convenience
• Nausea &vomiting, more frequent at the
initiation of treatment
Dipeptidyl Peptidase-IV Antagonists
• On Hypoglycemic Agents
– 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) – 7.0% (53 mmol/mol) with
no severe hypoglycemia
• On Insulin therapy
– < 7.0% (<53 mmol/mol) with no severe
hypoglycemia
• This is a guide only, as patients individual
circumstances need to be taken into
consideration, (elderly, living alone,
dementia, co-existing morbidities)
Frequency of HbA1c testing