title: [A useful guide for selecting pharmacotherapy in type 2 diabetes].
abstract: As the knowledge in medical science development, new molecular mechanism in the diabetes had lead to new drugs and therapeutics, althought the change in life style of the patient is essential for controling the blood levels in diabetic patient glucose. Antidiabetic drugs act through different mechanisms of action, including stimulation of insulin secretion, increasing sensitivity to insulin and the insulin analogues. Other agents are inhibitors of glucose, and finally drugs which imitate intestinal hormones. It is important to emphasize that diabetes is better controlled with more than one single drug, however the corner stone of the treatment is a correct diet and exercise.
authors.affiliation: Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. zaratre@att.net.mx
authors.forename: Arturo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zárate
authors.forename: Lourdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Basurto
authors.forename: Renata
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saucedo
authors.forename: Marcelino
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hernandez-Valencia
mesh_terms: D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic