%0 Journal Article %T A short-term follow-up of glycemic and body weight changes in diabetic patients who replaced dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors with the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor empagliflozin %A Brend Ray-Sea Hsu %A Chung-Huei Huang %A Yu-Yao Huang %J Archive of "Annals of Saudi Medicine". %D 2018 %R 10.5144/0256-4947.2018.420 %X Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2is, gliflozins) are associated with lower all-cause mortality than other anti-diabetic agents in patients with type 2 diabetes. In patients who may benefit from SGLT2is, but cannot add them to a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor (DPP4i, gliptin) treatment for various reasons, replacement of the DPP4i with a SGLT2i may be considered %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6302983/