Dapagliflozin Viatris

Dapagliflozin Viatris is a medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes, chronic (long-term) heart failure and chronic kidney disease. In type 2 diabetes, Dapagliflozin Viatris is used in adults and children from 10 years of age whose condition is not controlled well enough. It is used with appropriate diet and exercise in patients who cannot take metformin (another diabetes medicine). It can also be used as ‘add-on’ treatment to other diabetes medicines. In chronic heart failure (inability of the heart to pump enough blood around the body), Dapagliflozin Viatris is used in adults who have symptoms of the disease and reduced ejection fraction (a measure of how well the heart pumps blood). Dapagliflozin Viatris is also used in adults with chronic kidney disease. Dapagliflozin Viatris is a ‘generic medicine’. This means that Dapagliflozin Viatris contains the same active substance and works in the same way as a ‘reference medicine’ already authorised in the EU called Forxiga. For more information on generic medicines, see the question-and-answer document [here](https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/medicine-qa/questions-answers-generic-medicines_en.pdf). Dapagliflozin Viatris contains the active substance dapagliflozin.