Prescribing pattern of antidiabetic drugs in type 2 diabetic patients of Noakhali city in Bangladesh

Year 2017, Volume: 21 Issue: 4, 1010 - 1014, 01.12.2017

Anwesha Chowdhury Niloy Sen Sujan Banik

Abstract

The aim of the study was to describe the recent trends in the

prescription pattern of antidiabetic drugs and sociodemographic

characteristics of type 2 diabetic patients in Noakhali city of

Bangladesh. This hospital based prospective, cross-sectional

study was carried out in three diabetic hospitals of Noakhali

during the period of December, 2016 to February, 2017. A total

of 200 outpatients were included in this study by following

simple random procedure. Among 200 participants, 73.5%

were treated with monotherapy and 26.5% were treated with

polytherapy with the highest percentage (37.5%) of commonly

prescribed group drugs of sulfonylureas, but lonely metformin

(biguanide) was the most commonest (28%) drug among

oral hypoglycemic agents. The most accounted fixed dose

combination was sulfonylurea with biguanide, and biguanide

with glucodiase inhibitors. The highly prescribed insulin

preparations was insulin mixtures (11%) among the patients.

Drugs were prescribed by traditional brand names (100%) of

different local or foreign companies and 15% of prescription

were contained at least one multivitamin supplement. It was

focused from this study that oral hypoglycemic agents (OHA)

yet dominate the prescribing pattern, but there was a shifting

trend towards insulin preparation in the management of Type

2 diabetes mellitus.

Keywords

Anti-diabetic drugs; diabetes; oral hypoglycemic agents (OHA); metformin; prescribing pattern.

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