The use of dapaglifl ozin in a comorbid patient: new perspectives

Abstract

The development of the modern world is manifested, inter alia, by an increase in the prevalence of obesity and cardiovascular diseases. Treatment of these conditions is associated with the need to prescribe multicomponent therapy, which complicates the control of drug interactions, leads to a decrease in compliance and polypharmacy. A large number of drugs taken in a particular patient dictates the need to search for drugs, the appointment of which contributes to the control of several diseases at once, can be successfully used in patients with reduced renal function, in the presence of cardiovascular diseases. The presented description of a clinical case demonstrates an example of the use of a type 2 sodium glucose cotransporter inhibitor – dapagliflozin in a patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, chronic heart failure and gout.