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What is Glimepiride?

Glimepride is a medium-to-long acting sulfonylurea anti-diabetic drug that is taken orally for Type II diabetes. It may be used in combination with metformin or insulin in patients whose hyperglycemia cannot be controlled by diet and exercise in conjunction with a single oral hypoglycemic agent.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Diabetes Type 2 43 6 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 12 1 Efficacy_moderate
Diabetes Mellitus 6 1 Efficacy_moderate
Increase effect of another treatment 2 0
Support nutritional health 1 1 Efficacy_slight
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) 1 0

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 4
None
 5

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Glimepiride

Nausea 1
Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) 1

Reported Dosages

  1 mg daily 2 mg daily 3 mg daily 4 mg daily 5 mg daily 6 mg daily 8 mg daily
  18 Number of Patients: 18 15 Number of Patients: 15 2 Number of Patients: 2 21 Number of Patients: 21 2 Number of Patients: 2 3 Number of Patients: 3 11 Number of Patients: 11  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Glimepiride (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 3   Doctor's advice: 60%
Other 1   Other: 20%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 20%

See all 5 patients who’ve stopped taking Glimepiride

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Glimepiride

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more

Stopped Taking Glimepiride

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Glimepiride

Always
 7 78%
Usually
 2 22%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Glimepiride

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 1 11%
Not at all
 8 89%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Glimepiride

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 5 100%

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Report created on May 25, 2012.