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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Glipizide/Glucatrol


- See: Antidiabetic Medications: - for type II diabetes; sulfonylurea hypoglycemic; - Adult: 5mg PO qAM; titrate as need; - Precautions: - reduce dose in elderly; watch disulfiram rxn; - contraindicated w/ DKA, use w/ caution in patients w/ renal or hepatic dz; - hypoglycemicaction of glipizide may be potentiated by drugs that are highlyprotein bound; - beta blocking agents may mask symptoms of hypoglycemia;



Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.