Examples of using Qtern in English and their translations into German
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Colloquial
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Official
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Ecclesiastic
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Medicine
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Financial
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Ecclesiastic
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Political
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Computer
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Programming
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Official/political
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Political
How does Qtern work?
Qtern contains lactose.
Why is Qtern approved?
Do not take Qtern.
Qtern contains lactose milk sugar.
Other information about Qtern.
Qtern should not be used while breast-feeding.
Other medicines and Qtern.
Qtern is available as tablets(5 mg saxagliptin and 10 mg dapagliflozin) and can only be obtained with a prescription.
If pregnancy is detected, treatment with Qtern should be discontinued.
This is a summary of the European public assessment report(EPAR) for Qtern.
Qtern combines saxagliptin and dapagliflozin with complementary mechanisms of action to improve glycaemic control.
Talk to your doctor, pharmacist or nurse before taking Qtern.
Qtern is used to treat adults with type 2 diabetes to improve control of their blood glucose(sugar) levels.
Using CYP3A4 inducers like carbamazepine, dexamethasone, phenobarbital, phenytoin,and rifampicin may reduce the glycaemic lowering effect of Qtern.
Qtern is not recommended during pregnancy and your doctor will ask you to stop taking this medicine if you become pregnant.
The safety andefficacy of dapagliflozin in patients with type 1 diabetes have not been established and Qtern should not be used for treatment of patients with type 1 diabetes.
Therapeutic experience with Qtern in patients 65 years and older is limited, and very limited in patients 75 years and older.
Recommendations and precautions to be followed by healthcare professionals and patients for the safe and effective use of Qtern have been included in the summary of product characteristics and the package leaflet.
Although both components of Qtern contribute to lowering blood glucose levels, the effects of each may vary in different patients.
Qtern should not be used in patients with moderate to severe renal impairment patients with CrCl< 60 ml/min or eGFR< 60 ml/min/1.73 m2.
On the basis of previous studies with the individual components of Qtern used together with a sulphonylurea, the CHMP also approved the combination of Qtern with a sulphonylurea.
Qtern 5 mg/10 mg film-coated tablets are light brown to brown, biconvex, round, film-coated tablets, with“5/10” printed on one side, and“1122” printed on the other side, in blue ink.
For patients receiving Qtern, in case of intercurrent conditions that may lead to volume depletion, careful monitoring of volume status e. g.
If Qtern is used in combination with insulin secretagogue(sulphonylurea), a reduction in the dose of sulphonylurea may be required to minimize the risk of hypoglycaemia see section 4.8.
The two active substances in Qtern work in different ways to help control the level of sugar in your blood and remove excess sugar from your body via your urine.
Qtern must not be used in people who are hypersensitive(allergic) to saxagliptin, dapagliflozin, any of the other ingredients or who have ever had a serious allergic reaction to any DPP-4 or SGLT2 inhibitor.
Due to dapagliflozin's mechanism of action, Qtern increases diuresis associated with a modest decrease in blood pressure(see section 5.1), which may be more pronounced in patients with very high blood glucose concentrations.
The CHMP also considered Qtern to be effective at controlling blood glucose levels when used in patients who were not satisfactorily controlled with metformin plus either saxagliptin or dapagliflozin.
The CHMP therefore considered that Qtern should only be used in patients already receiving at least one component to avoid over-treatment and so that the value of each component can be judged individually.