443 Drugs That Can Affect Blood Glucose Levels

What drugs affect glucose levels? Many can, including steroids, anxiety and depression medications, statins, beta-blockers, some acne & asthma medications.

Knowing the drugs that can affect blood glucose levels is essential in properly caring for your diabetes patients. Some medicines raise blood sugar in patients while others might lower their levels. However, not all drugs affect patients the same way.

443 Drugs that can Affect Blood Glucose Levels is also available as a downloadable PDF.

Last Revised: 04/5/2020

Table of Contents:

Drugs that May Cause Hyperglycemia

Drugs that May Cause Hypoglycemia

Drugs that May Cause Hyper- or Hypoglycemia

Drugs that Mask Hypoglycemia

Drugs That May Cause Hyperglycemia (High Blood Sugar)

Abacavir (Ziagen®)

Abacavir + lamivudine, zidovudine (Trizivir®)

Abacavir + dolutegravir + lamivudine (Triumeq®)

Abiraterone (Zytiga®)

Acetazolamide (Diamox®)

Acitretin (Soriatane®)

Albuterol (Ventolin®, Proventil®)

Albuterol + ipratropium (Combivent®)

Alectinib (Alecensa®)

Aliskiren + amlodipine + hydrochlorothiazide (Amturnide®)

Aliskiren + amlodipine (Tekamlo®)Ammonium chloride

Amphotericin B (Amphocin®, Fungizone®)

Amphotericin B lipid formulations IV (Abelcet®)

Amprenavir (Agenerase®)

Anidulafungin (Eraxis®)

Aripiprazole (Abilify®)

Arsenic trioxide (Trisenox®)

Asenapine (Saphris)

Asparaginase (Elspar®, Erwinaze®)

Atazanavir (Reyataz ®)

Atazanavir + cobistat (Evotaz®)

Atenolol + chlorthalidone (Tenoretic®)

Atorvastatin (Lipitor®)

Atovaquone (Mepron®) ....

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