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All right.

So in this section, I'm going to get into diabetes medications.

Talk about pharmacology and, of course, some of the most important things that you're going

to need to know in practice as well as on any potential pharmacology and board exams.

First off, just threw this table in there, great little resource from Pearls.

First line pharmacotherapy, we're using metformin, we're using GOP-1s, and we're using SGLT2s. So that selection can vary

based upon compelling indications and other conditions that the patient has. But that's really

those three medications and medication classes, that's typically where we're going to start.

And so those are the ones that I'll go through here as well.

If you want to dig in more, certainly take the time, hit the pause button.

You can see some of the specifics on which medications are most beneficial where. Again, I'll cover some of that as we get

through the medications here. All right, starting with metformin. Historically, this has been the

first line agent by itself. We'd always start with metformin. That's changed in the guidelines.

Now we might consider an SGLT2 or a GLP1 agonist.

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