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A10 Drugs used in diabetes

ATC group of level 2 – therapeutic subgroup · in plain English: medicines for diabetes

This site has the patient leaflet or the SPC of 589 medicines in this group and its subgroups.

Place in the ATC classification

  1. A Alimentary tract and metabolism drugs 1,624 medicines
    1. A10 Drugs used in diabetes 589 medicines
      1. A10A Insulins and analogues 116 medicines
      2. A10B Blood glucose lowering drugs, excl. insulins 472 medicines

1 more subgroup has no medicine with a leaflet on this site.

Medicines in the group and its subgroups

MedicineLegal category
Gliclazide 80 mg tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide 80 mg tablets, Diabrezide SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide 80 mg tablets, Glimil tablets (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide Accord 30 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide Accord-UK 30 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide Accord-UK 60 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide Rivopharm 30 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide Rivopharm 60 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide tablets 80 mg BP SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide tablets BP 80 mg SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Gliclazide Teva 30 mg modified-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Glidipion (previously Pioglitazone Actavis Group) SPC (A10BG03 pioglitazone) –
Glimepiride 1 mg tablets SPC no longer supplied (A10BB12 glimepiride) –
Glimepiride 2 mg tablets SPC (A10BB12 glimepiride) Prescription only (POM)
Glimepiride 3 mg tablets SPC (A10BB12 glimepiride) Prescription only (POM)
Glimepiride 4 mg tablets SPC (A10BB12 glimepiride) Prescription only (POM)
Glipizide tablets 5 mg SPC (A10BB07 glipizide) Prescription only (POM)
Glubrava SPC (A10BD05 metformin and pioglitazone) –
Glucient SR 1000 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC no longer supplied (A10BA02 metformin) –
Glucient SR 750 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC no longer supplied (A10BA02 metformin) –
Glucophage 500 mg tablets SPC (A10BA02 metformin) Prescription only (POM)
Glucophage 850 mg tablets SPC (A10BA02 metformin) Prescription only (POM)
Glucophage SR 1000 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BA02 metformin) Prescription only (POM)
Glucophage SR 1000 mg tablets (A10BA02 metformin) Prescription only (POM)
Glucophage SR 500 mg prolonged-release tablets (A10BA02 metformin) Prescription only (POM)
Glucophage SR 500 mg prolonged-release tablets, Getemin SR 500 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BA02 metformin) Prescription only (POM)
Glucophage SR 750 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BA02 metformin) Prescription only (POM)
Glustin SPC (A10BG03 pioglitazone) –
Glydex 160 mg tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Glyxambi 10 mg / 5 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BD19 linagliptin and empagliflozin) Prescription only (POM)
Glyxambi 25 mg / 5 mg (Empagliflozin/linagliptin) film-coated tablets SPC (A10BD19 linagliptin and empagliflozin) Prescription only (POM)
Humalog 100 units/ml KwikPen solution for injection in a Pre-filled pen (A10AB04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog 100 units/ml solution for injection in cartridge (A10AB04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog 100 units/ml solution for injection in vial (A10AB04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog 200 units/ml KwikPen solution for injection in a Pre-filled pen (A10AB04 insulin lispro) Prescription only (POM)
Humalog 200 units/ml KwikPen solution for injection in Pre-filled pen SPC (A10AB04 insulin lispro) Prescription only (POM)
Humalog Mix25 100 units/ml Kwickpen suspension for injection in Pre-filled pen SPC (A10AD04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog Mix25 100 units/ml KwikPen suspension for injection in a Pre-filled pen (A10AD04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog Mix25 100 units/ml KwikPen suspension for injection in Pre-filled pen (A10AD04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog Mix25 100 units/ml suspension for injection in cartridge SPC (A10AD04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog Mix25 100 units/ml suspension for injection in vial SPC (A10AD04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog Mix50 100 units/ml Kwickpen suspension for injection in a Pre-filled pen SPC (A10AD04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog Mix50 100 units/ml KwikPen suspension for injection in a Pre-filled pen SPC (A10AD04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog100 units/ml Junior KwikPen solution for injection in a Pre-filled pen SPC (A10AB04 insulin lispro) Prescription only (POM)
Humalog100 units/ml Kwickpen solution for injection in Pre-filled pen SPC (A10AB04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog100 units/ml Solutionfor injection in cartridge SPC (A10AB04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog100 units/ml Solutionfor injection in vial SPC (A10AB04 insulin lispro) –
Humalog100 units/ml Tempo pen solution for injection in a Pre-filled pen SPC no longer supplied (A10AB04 insulin lispro) –
Humulin I 100 IU-ml suspension for injection in vial (A10AC01 insulin (human)) Prescription only (POM)
Humulin I 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in cartridge (A10AC01 insulin (human)) Prescription only (POM)
Humulin I 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in vial SPC (A10AC01 insulin (human)) Prescription only (POM)
Humulin I KwikPen 100 IU/ml suspension for injection SPC (A10AC01 insulin (human)) Prescription only (POM)
Humulin M3 (Mixture 3) 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in cartridge SPC (A10AD01 insulin (human)) –
Humulin M3 (Mixture 3) 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in vial (A10AD01 insulin (human)) –
Humulin M3 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in cartridge (A10AD01 insulin (human)) –
Humulin M3 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in vial SPC (A10AD01 insulin (human)) –
Humulin S 100 IU/ml solution for injection in cartridge SPC (A10AB01 insulin (human)) Prescription only (POM)
Humulin S 100 IU/ml solution for injection in vial SPC (A10AB01 insulin (human)) Prescription only (POM)
Hypurin Porcine 30/70 Mix SPC (A10AD03 insulin (pork)) Prescription only (POM)
Hypurin Porcine Isophane SPC (A10AC03 insulin (pork)) Prescription only (POM)
Hypurin Porcine Neutral SPC (A10AB03 insulin (pork)) Prescription only (POM)
Icandra (previously Vildagliptin / metformin hydrochloride Novartis) SPC (A10BD08 metformin and vildagliptin) –
Incresync 12.5 mg / 30 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BD09 pioglitazone and alogliptin) –
Incresync 25 mg / 30 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BD09 pioglitazone and alogliptin) –
Incresync 25 mg / 45 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BD09 pioglitazone and alogliptin) –
Insulatard 100 International units/ml suspension for injection in vial. SPC (A10AC01 insulin (human)) Prescription only (POM)
Insulatard FlexPen 100 International units/ml suspension for injection in Pre-filled pen SPC no longer supplied (A10AC01 insulin (human)) –
Insulatard Innolet 100 International units/ml suspension for injection in Pre-filled pen SPC no longer supplied (A10AC01 insulin (human)) –
Insulatard Penfill 100 International units/ml suspension for injection in cartridge SPC no longer supplied (A10AC01 insulin (human)) –
Insulin aspart Sanofi SPC (A10AB05 insulin aspart) –
Insulin Human Winthrop SPC (A10AB01 insulin (human)) –
Insulin lispro Sanofi SPC (A10AB04 insulin lispro) –
Insuman Basal 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in a cartridge SPC no longer supplied (A10AC01 insulin (human)) –
Invokana 100 mg film-coated tablets (A10BK02 canagliflozin) Prescription only (POM)
Invokana 100 mg tablets (A10BK02 canagliflozin) Prescription only (POM)
Invokana 300 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BK02 canagliflozin) Prescription only (POM)
Jalra SPC (A10BH02 vildagliptin) –
Janumet 50 mg / 1000 mg film-coated tablets (A10BD07 metformin and sitagliptin) Prescription only (POM)
Janumet 50 mg / 850 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BD07 metformin and sitagliptin) Prescription only (POM)
Janumet 50 mg/1 000 mg film-coated tablets (A10BD07 metformin and sitagliptin) Prescription only (POM)
Januvia 100 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BH01 sitagliptin) Prescription only (POM)
Januvia 25 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BH01 sitagliptin) Prescription only (POM)
Januvia 50 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BH01 sitagliptin) Prescription only (POM)
Jardiance 10 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BK03 empagliflozin) Prescription only (POM)
Jardiance 25 mg film-coated tablets (A10BK03 empagliflozin) Prescription only (POM)
Jentadueto 2.5 mg / 1000 mg film-coated tablets SPC (A10BD11 metformin and linagliptin) Prescription only (POM)
Jentadueto 2.5 mg/1 000 mg film-coated tablets (A10BD11 metformin and linagliptin) Prescription only (POM)
Jesacrin 1000 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BA02 metformin) Prescription only (POM)
Kirsty (previously Kixelle) SPC (A10AB05 insulin aspart) –
Kirsty 100 units/ml solution for injection in Pre-filled pen SPC (A10AB05 insulin aspart) –
Kirsty 100 units/ml solution for injection in vial SPC (A10AB05 insulin aspart) –
Komboglyze 2.5 mg / 1 000 mg film-coated tablets SPC not available (A10BD10 metformin and saxagliptin) –
Komboglyze 2.5 mg/1000 mg film-coated tablets not available (A10BD10 metformin and saxagliptin) –
Laaglyda MR 60 mg modified-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Lamzarin 30 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Lamzarin 60 mg prolonged-release tablets SPC (A10BB09 gliclazide) Prescription only (POM)
Lanity 6 mg/ml solution for injection in Pre-filled pen SPC (A10BJ02 liraglutide) Prescription only (POM)
Lantus 100 units/ml solution for injection in a cartridge SPC (A10AE04 insulin glargine) –
Lantus 100 units/ml solution for injection in a vial SPC (A10AE04 insulin glargine) –
Lantus SoloStar 100 units/ml solution for injection in a Pre Filled pen SPC (A10AE04 insulin glargine) –

Sources

  • Patient leaflets and SPCs: the MHRA product information (products.mhra.gov.uk) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA)
  • Active substances, ATC codes and legal categories: the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d), NHS Business Services Authority
  • World Health Organization (WHO): ATC/DDD classification, group A10

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