As most patients with type 2 diabetes are treated in the primary-care setting, the increasing utilization of SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP1 agonists by our primary-care colleagues will improve outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes on a population level. The clinical guidelines cautioned against treating people with type 2 diabetes with inadequate glycemic control with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, saying that high-certainty evidence showed that adding a DPP-4 inhibitor does not reduce morbidity or all-cause mortality.
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But compounded with dehydration from vomiting, reduced food intake from extreme appetite suppression, and interaction with other diabetes medications, blood sugar can drop to dangerous levels
3 Glucose is a requisite metabolic fuel for brain cells
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