Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Patients Following Addition of SGLT2 Inhibitors Versus Sulfonylureas to Baseline GLP-IRA Therapy.

Conclusions: Risk of residual confounding cannot be fully excluded. Individual therapeutic agents within each class may have different magnitudes of effect. In this large real-world cohort of diabetic patients already on GLP-1RA, addition of SGLT2i - compared to addition of sulfonylurea - conferred greater cardiovascular benefit. The magnitude of the cardiovascular risk reduction was comparable to the benefit seen in cardiovascular outcome trials of SGLT2i versus placebo where baseline GLP-1RA use was minimal.
PMID: 33302723 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Circulation - December 11, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dave CV, Kim SC, Goldfine AB, Glynn RJ, Tong A, Patorno E Tags: Circulation Source Type: research