Glimepiride

Our free Best Buy Drugs report recommends the drug metformin, either alone or with glipizide or glimepiride, as your first option. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, we recommend the drug metformin, either alone or with glipizide or glimepiride, as your first option. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Avandamet, which contains Avandia and metformin, another diabetes drug, and Avandaryl, which contains Avandia and glimepiride, also carry the heart failure warning. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The study, presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual meeting, involved 543 patients who were either treated with Actos, made by Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., or with glimepiride, an older diabetes drug that falls into a class of medications known as sulfonylureas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The study showed patients receiving Actos didn't have any progression of coronary-plaque buildup, while those on glimepiride had an increase in the amount of plaque in their arteries. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Patients were assigned randomly to use either glimepiride or Actos, at varying doses, for 18 months. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Consumer also rates Amaryl (glipizide) and Glucotrol (glimepiride) as good buys. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Using records from primary care doctors, the researchers determined how many people in the pancreatic cancer and cancer-free groups had previously been diagnosed with diabetes and were on an anti-diabetes drug, such as metformin or sulfonylureas, which include glimepiride and glyburide. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate), Avandamet (rosiglitazone maleate and metformin hydrochloride), Avandaryl (rosiglitazone maleate and glimepiride). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Avandaryl (rosiglitazone maleate and glimepiride). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Avandamet (rosiglitazone maleate and metformin hydrochloride), and Avandaryl (rosiglitazone maleate and glimepiride), which all contain rosiglitazone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Avandia (rosiglitazone maleate), Avandamet (rosiglitazone maleate and metformin hydrochloride), and Avandaryl (rosiglitazone maleate and glimepiride), which all contain rosiglitazone. ❋ Unknown (2010)