tolbutamide
IPA: tˈoʊɫbjutʌmaɪd
noun
- A drug that blocks potassium channels, used in the treatment of diabetes.
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Examples of "tolbutamide" in Sentences
- Type 2 diabetes that went through a strikingly similar controversy: tolbutamide.
- Data presented indicated that tolbutamide increased cardiovascular deaths by over two and a half times.
- Inform patient that alcohol may react with tolbutamide and cause Antabuse - like reaction (eg, flushing, headache, dizziness, high BP).
- The headline appeared almost exactly 35 years ago, on July 4, 1975, about a different drug for Type 2 diabetes that went through a strikingly similar controversy: tolbutamide.
- Clinically meaningful interactions would not be expected with other sulfonylureas (e.g., glipizide, tolbutamide, and glimepiride) which, like glyburide, are primarily eliminated by CYP2C9.
- Kangkong showed oral hypoglycaemic activity in tests with diabetic humans and rats; it was shown that an aqueous leaf extract can be as effective as tolbutamide in reducing blood glucose levels
- Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.
- In time, the reputation of the class of diabetic drugs to which tolbutamide belonged was salvaged to some degree by proposing that tolbutamide might interfere with a purported pathophysiologic mechanism called "ischemic preconditioning" while others drugs in this family might not.
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