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How do SGLT-2 inhibitor medicines work?
Diabetes ManagementHeart Failure Interventionsdiabetesheart failureHPO1CSGLT2kidneys

How do SGLT-2 inhibitor medicines work?

Dr Sheharyar Quraishi, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist explains what type of medicines SGLT-2 inhibitors are, how they work and what beneficial effects they can have.

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Kidneys could have glucose transporters that would mean that the reabsorbed amount of the glucose in the body when the urine is being produced. The SGLT2 is designed to reverse that effect of the glucose transporter, which essentially mean you pee the sugar in the urine so that glucose gets secreted in the urine, which essentially has beneficial effects with regards to oral control of the sugar levels within the blood and have beneficial effects from reduction of the HPO1C levels that you want to achieve. Also, because it's been licensed to be used in heart failure in heart failure, which essentially means it could be you, it essentially is a diuretic, which makes you pee a lot more. And patients who have combination of diabetes and heart failure, it's an excellent thing.

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