Diabetes treatment: Medications for type 2 diabetes

Healthy lifestyle choices — including diet, exercise and weight control — are an important part of diabetes treatment. If you have type 2 diabetes, sometimes medication to control blood sugar is needed, too. Sometimes a single medication is effective. In other cases, a combination of medications works better.

Here's an at-a-glance comparison of various diabetes medications. Medications are listed in order of release date, from oldest to newest.

Nov. 8, 2007
By Mayo Clinic Staff
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