How Type 2 Diabetes Drug, Dapagliflozin Could Help Control Type 1 Diabetes

Patients with Type 1 diabetes who were treated with dapagliflozin had a significant decline in their blood sugar levels. Dapagliflozin, a medicine prescribed for Type 2 diabetes and was tested for type 1 diabetics. The drug is a sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor (SGLT-2) which was given as an adjunct therapy in addition to the insulin that patients with Type 1 diabetes need to survive.