Diabetes is a chronic progressive disease, mildly can be controlled through diet control, exercise, weight loss and other lifestyle improvements, but most patients need glucose-lowering drug therapy, understanding the types of glucose-lowering drugs helps clinical application of drug selection, blood glucose attainment and reduce side effects. So there are those kinds of glucose-lowering drugs? There are more types of glucose-lowering drugs commonly used clinically, and the specific ones can be classified in this way. 1, now commonly used hypoglycemic drugs: 8 categories: including biguanides, sulfonylureas, glinides, DPP-4 inhibitors, GLP-1 agonists, TZDs, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, insulin class; 2, new hypoglycemic drugs 4 categories: SGLT-2 inhibitors (dagliflozin), human glucagon analogues (pramlintide), dopamine receptor agonists (bromocriptine), bile acid chelators ( Colaviron).