Drug interactions don’t come to the top of my mind when I see GLP-1 agonists in use. We are fortunate that they do not have a lot of significant interactions, but I don’t think you should forget about them altogether. I’ve provided a list below of my...
Many patients are labeled as having a “sulfa allergy”. This is typically going to be from a reaction to sulfa antibiotics (i.e. sulfamethoxazole). Sulfonylureas are one of the drug classes that have sulfonamides as part of their chemical structure so therefore a...
With the recent changes in the Beers Criteria, glimepiride has now been added to the list of sulfonylureas to avoid. Glipizide is the preferred agent if a sulfonylurea is to be used. This begs the question, should we recommend changing glimepiride to glipizide? In my...
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