Type 2 diabetes, Aifa announces that from today general practitioners will be able to prescribe three new categories of drugs (SGLT2, GLP1 and DPP4)
The type 2 diabetes it is a disease that affects about 3.5 million Italians, equal to 6-7% of the population. According to what theAifa (Italian Medicines Agency) almost one third of patients is followed exclusively by general practitioner, which until now, however, could not prescribe three categories of medicines against diabetes become very effective in fighting the disease and its complications. From today it will no longer be like this.
Who suffers from Type 2 diabetes may be prescribed by general practitioner, as well as by all the specialists of the national health system (SSN), also SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP1 receptor agonists e DPP4 inhibitors. Recent studies have shown that the first two can reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases come heart attack and stroke and slow down the progression of nephropathy.
Type 2 diabetes, Aifa: “It will be possible to offer a more effective treatment that does not only concern glycemic control”
“This is a much awaited step – affirms theAifa -, required by both patient associations and doctors, which will allow the General medicine to acquire a primary role in the integrated management of diabetes“and” to offer the best possible treatment to all patients with type 2 diabetes no longer based on the mere correction of the glycemia, but on the prevention of cardiovascular and renal complications which represent important critical issues of this pathology “.
The note 100, which refers to the possibility of contacting the general practitioner for i anti-diabetes drugs, “it is not only proposed to define the reimbursement of drugs, but has been designed as a guideline document that allows identifying the most appropriate therapeutic choice for the individual patient in relation to his characteristics, general clinical picture and risk factors that presents “.
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