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Sticking to Taking Diabetes Drugs

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Gregory Santulli

If you have Type 2 diabetes, chances are, you’ll be prescribed an oral diabetes drug fairly soon after your diagnosis. At some point in the course of your treatment, you and your doctor may also decide to add insulin or another injected diabetes drug to your treatment plan.

When deciding what drugs to prescribe or recommend prescribing, your doctor will most likely consider their track record of safety, effectiveness, side effects, how easy they are to take, and possibly what they cost. But another important aspect of drugs may be often overlooked: how likely you are to actually take them as prescribed.
Comparing oral drug adherence
 
In a recent study, researchers looked at how often patients took diabetes drugs as prescribed — covering both oral and injected drugs.
 
 
Published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, the study examined previously published data comparing two or more drugs used to lower blood glucose for Type 2 diabetes. They found a total of 48 such comparisons in their search.
 
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