It is used with diet and exercise, together with one or more antidiabetes medicines: • in combination with metformin, in patients who are not satisfactorily controlled on metformin alone; • in combination with a sulphonylurea in patients who are not satisfactorily controlled with a sulphonylurea alone and in whom metformin is not suitable; • in combination with both metformin and a sulphonylurea, when both medicines are not sufficient to give satisfactory control of the patient ’ s diabetes; • in combination with a PPAR gamma agonist, such as a thiazolidinedione, in patients who are not satisfactorily controlled on the PPAR gamma agonist alone.