Empagliflozin

Jardiance · SGLT2 inhibitor

Generic
empagliflozin
Brand
Jardiance
Class
SGLT2 inhibitor
DEA schedule
CV — controlled substance
Say it
EM-pa-gli-FLOE-zin

What technicians need to know

CV and renal benefit

Commonly mispronounced

"em-PAG-li-floh-zin"

The -gliflozin pattern

Empagliflozin ends in -gliflozin, which marks a SGLT2 inhibitor — used for type 2 diabetes. Learning the suffix families turns roughly 200 separate drugs into about 20 patterns you can reason from. See all the families.

Other sglt2 inhibitors

dapagliflozin canagliflozin

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