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What are the risks?

Risk factors for developing diabetes include the following:
Being:

  • Age 40 or older
  • A member of a high-risk ethnic group (Aboriginal, Hispanic, Asian, South Asian or African descent)
  • Overweight (especially if you carry most of your weight around your middle)

Having:

  • A parent, brother or sister with diabetes
  • Health complications that are associated with diabetes (see list on previous page under ‘Is diabetes serious?’)
  • Given birth to a baby that weighed more than 4 kg (9 lb) at birth
  • Had gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy)
  • Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or impaired fasting glucose (IFG)
  • High blood pressure
  • High cholesterol or other fats in the blood

Having been diagnosed with any of the following conditions:

  • Polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Acanthosis nigricans (darkened patches of skin)
  • Schizophrenia

Additional meglitinide Resources:
Pharm Care Educational Series-Type II Diabetes
Drug Treatment Options for Diabetes Mellitus Type II. Sulfonylurea agents. Biguanide agents. Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors. Insulin sensitizers. Meglitinide agents. home | risks | symptoms | prevent | therapy


MotherNature.com - Repaglinide
... individuals with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus; it is in the meglitinide class of anti-diabetic drugs ...


Repaglinide, Prandin
... individuals with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus; it is in the meglitinide class of anti-diabetic drugs ...


Meglitinide
Meglitinide. Meglitinides stimulate insulin secretion from the beta cells of the pancreas. The process is similar to sulfonylureas, but this form of drugs bind to a different binding site of the beta cell.


Meglitinide
Meglitinide. meglitinide (meh-GLIH-tin-ide): a class of oral medicine for type 2 diabetes that lowers blood glucose by helping the pancreas make more insulin right after meals. ( Generic name: repaglinide.)


Cardiovascular Safety of Oral Antidiabetic Agents: The Insulin Secretagogues -- Caulfield and O'Brien 20 (2): 81 -- ...
... focus on insulin and the sulfonylurea drugs but also briefly discuss meglitinide analogs. ... Whether the meglitinide analogs have adverse effects on ischemic preconditioning is not ...


Repaglinide
... individuals with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus; it is in the meglitinide class of anti-diabetic drugs ...


Strategies to investigate the mechanism of action of CFTR modulators
... the non-sulphonylurea hypoglycaemic. agent meglitinide; Ref 6; Fig ... that the effects of the drug are completely reversible (e.g., meglitinide; Ref 6; Fig ...


Meglitinide
Meglitinide. meglitinide (meh-GLIH-tin-ide): a class of oral medicine for type 2 diabetes that lowers blood glucose by helping the pancreas make more insulin right after meals. ( Generic name: repaglinide.)


doc 129
Conformational analysis of non-sulfonylurea hypoglycemic agents of the meglitinide family. Lins L, Brasseur R, Malaisse WJ ... and the poorly efficient insulinotropic agent meglitinide. The identification of a ...


TYPE 2 DIABETES TREATMENT APPROACH PRINCIPLES
... Thiazolidinedione. or Meglitinide. or Meglitinide. Meglitinide or Sulfonylurea ...


Numark | Repaglinide
... individuals with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus; it is in the meglitinide class of anti-diabetic drugs ...


Practical Pointers - NOVEMBER 2001
Practical Pointers, Inc. is a public service, non-profit organization run by Dr. Richard James that abstracts primary care journal articles from six major journals. ... 11-1 INSULINOTROPIC MEGLITINIDE ANALOGUES: Repaglinide (Prandin); A New Oral Drug ... from a non-sulfonylurea moiety now termed meglitinide. In tackling postprandial hyperglycemia, the ...


Tissue Specificity of Sulfonylureas Studies on Cloned Cardiac and -Cell K
... the benzamido-derivative meglitinide, using cloned - c e l l ... rents with high aff i n i t y. Meglitinide produced high-aff i n i t y ...


Vitamins, Minerals, and Nutritional Supplements. Repaglinide
... individuals with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus; it is in the meglitinide class of anti-diabetic drugs ...


Pharm Care Educational Series-Type II Diabetes
MEGLITINIDE AGENTS. Mechanism of action: it is a potent potassium-channel blocker; it binds to the K-receptors on the beta cells in the pancreas and closes the ATP-dependent potassium channels.


Bundesverband Niedergelassener Kardiologen e.V. (BNK)
... Substanzklassen: Biguanide, Sulfonylharnstoffe, Meglitinide, Glitazone und a-Glucosidase-Inhibitoren ... geschützt wären. Die Meglitinide dürften aufgrund ihres analogen ...


e-MDs | Products | Patient Education - PRANDIN Generic Name:
... Classification: Oral Diabetic Medication (Meglitinide) - Available by prescription only ...


doc 133
Conformational analysis of the calcium complexes formed by meglitinide analogs. Lins L, Brasseur R, Malaisse WJ ... of calcium complexes formed with meglitinide and its hypoglycemic analogs KAD-1229 ... the poorly efficient insulinotropic agent meglitinide and the biologically inactive enantiomer of ...


Diabetes - Diabetes Medicine
A collective resource of diabetes medicine sites. ... Meglitinide Class of Diabetes Medications for Type 2 Diabetes | Prandi. What you need to know about the meglitinide type 2 diabetes drug Prandin ...