Combination therapy for patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus: adding empagliflozin to pioglitazone or pioglitazone plus metformin

摘要

Introduction: For patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), there is a growing interest in sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, a class of glucose-lowering agents that act independently of insulin secretion and insulin action and also have a weight-lowering effect. Empagliflozin is an SGLT2 inhibitor that has been demonstrated to significantly reduce blood glucose levels and is well tolerated in patients with T2DM.