1. SGLT2 Inhibitors and Cardiovascular Outcomes: Do They Differ or There is a Class Effect? New Insights from the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial and the CVD-REAL Study
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Anna Garmpi, Paraskevi Farmaki, Vasileios Antoniou, Lourdes Victoria Quiles-Sánchez, Eleni Memi, Konstantina Kyre, Georgios Kyriakos, and Spyridon Savvanis
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,diabetes type 2 mellitus ,CVD-REAL study ,T2DM ,Class effect ,Outcome (game theory) ,Article ,cardiovascular events ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Diabetes mellitus ,medicine ,Humans ,Hypoglycemic Agents ,In patient ,Hypoglycemic drugs ,Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors ,EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial ,business.industry ,class effect ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,030104 developmental biology ,Drug class ,Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 ,Cardiovascular Diseases ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Cardiovascular outcomes ,SGLT2 inhibitors - Abstract
A new group of hypoglycemic drugs has been used to treat diabetes type 2. This group is active sodium glucose co-transporter (SGLT2) or SGLT2 inhibitors. It has been shown that besides the treatment of diabetes, this drug class is responsible for the mildness of the cardiovascular events shown in patients with diabetes type 2. However, there is an intriguing question regarding the range of SGLT2 inhibitors and if there is a difference between them or if there is a class effect among their results. EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial and the CVD-study are used to answer this question. Additional information from the DECLARE-TIMI 58 and Dapa-HF trials is studied.
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- 2021