Glipizide oral tablets are generic drugs approved to manage blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. Learn about side effects, dosage, and more.

Sulfonylureas are a class of drugs that manage type 2 diabetes by increasing insulin release from the pancreas. They are usually prescribed alongside a healthy diet and exercise to help control ...

Sulfonylurea users prescribed co-trimoxazole had a significantly higher risk for emergency room visits for hypoglycemia (odds ratio, 3.89; 95% confidence interval, 2.29-6.60 for glipizide; and ...

In this careful study, some 5,800 patients treated with sulfonylurea drugs for their diabetes were monitored for an average of about five years. Patients who were prescribed a sulfonylurea drug ...

Sensitivity analysis yielded similar results, indicating that the incident OA risk continued to be lower among metformin-treated individuals than among those treated with sulfonylurea medications ...

IT has been the experience of those who have used the sulfonylurea compounds that they are, for the most part, not effective in children with diabetes or in adults with unstable, juvenile type of ...

Sulfonylurea drugs should therefore be relegated to third-line agents (after metformin and thiazolidinedione drugs) for managing type 2 diabetes — a conclusion also made in recently published ...