Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor and Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist: New Glucose-lowering Medications and Cardiovascular Outcome

Chiang-ngernthanyakun Kittanat

Sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitor and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist are novel types of glucose-lowering drug for treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2. They are usually prescribed in form of additional therapy to the first-line drug. Clinical trials have shown benefit on cardiovascular event reduction. Dentists may encounter the patient with this new drug more prevailingly. Thus, understanding in basic of the drug is quite necessary. This article mainly performs major drug profile in terms of mechanism of action, effect on glycemic control, associated cardiovascular studies and some characteristics.

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Chiang-ngernthanyakun K. Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor and Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist: New Glucose-lowering Medications and Cardiovascular Outcome: A case reports/series. CM Dent J [Internet]. 2020 Jan 01 [cited 2024 Nov 18];42(1):199-215. Available from: https://www.dent.cmu.ac.th/cmdj/frontend/web/?r=site/viewarticle&id=27

& Chiang-ngernthanyakun, K. (2020). Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor and Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist: New Glucose-lowering Medications and Cardiovascular Outcome. CM Dent J, 42(1), 199-215. Retrieved from: https://www.dent.cmu.ac.th/cmdj/frontend/web/?r=site/viewarticle&id=27

Chiang-ngernthanyakun, K., . 2020. "Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor and Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist: New Glucose-lowering Medications and Cardiovascular Outcome." CM Dent J, 42(1), 199-215. https://www.dent.cmu.ac.th/cmdj/frontend/web/?r=site/viewarticle&id=27

Chiang-ngernthanyakun, K. et al. 2020. 'Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor and Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist: New Glucose-lowering Medications and Cardiovascular Outcome', CM Dent J, 42(1), 199-215. Retrieved from https://www.dent.cmu.ac.th/cmdj/frontend/web/?r=site/viewarticle&id=27

and Chiang-ngernthanyakun, K. "Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor and Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist: New Glucose-lowering Medications and Cardiovascular Outcome", CM Dent J, vol.42, no. 1, pp. 199-215, Jan. 2020.

Chiang-ngernthanyakun Kittanat "Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitor and Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonist: New Glucose-lowering Medications and Cardiovascular Outcome." CM Dent J, vol.42, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 199-215, https://www.dent.cmu.ac.th/cmdj/frontend/web/?r=site/viewarticle&id=27