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Potential role of sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in the treatment of hypertension
Purpose of review: The majority of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have hypertension requiring combination therapy. Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are novel glucose-lowering drugs with shared and potentially unique beneficial effects on cardiovascular risk beyond glycemic control. This review focuses on the potential role of SGLT2 inhibitors in the treatment of hypertension associated with T2DM. Recent findings: SGLT2 inhibitors reduce office SBP by 3–5 mmHg and DBP by 2–3 mmHg across all class members. Corresponding clinically meaningful, significant blood pressure (BP) lowering e...
Source: Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension - February 5, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF HYPERTENSION: Edited by Nancy J. Brown Source Type: research

Sitagliptin and other 'gliptins'- why prescribe them?
Authors: Doggrell SA, Dimmitt SB Abstract INTRODUCTION: In 2008, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) required all new glucose-lowering therapies to show cardiovascular safety, and this applies to the dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP)-4 inhibitors ('gliptins'). At present, there is contradictory evidence on whether the gliptins increase hospitalizations for heart failure. Areas covered: This is an evaluation of the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS) in high risk cardiovascular subjects with type 2 diabetes [1]. TECOS demonstrated non-inferiority for sitagliptin over placebo for the primary ...
Source: Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy - February 14, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Expert Opin Pharmacother Source Type: research

SGLT2 Inhibition and cardiovascular events: why did EMPA-REG Outcomes surprise and what were the likely mechanisms?
Abstract While the modest reduction in the primary composite outcome of myocardial infarction, stroke or cardiovascular death in the EMPA-REG Outcomes trial was welcome, the 30–40% reductions in heart failure hospitalisation (HFH) and cardiovascular and all-cause deaths in patients treated with empagliflozin were highly impressive and unexpected. In this review, we discuss briefly why cardiovascular endpoint trials for new diabetes agents are required and describe the results of the first four such trials to have reported, as a precursor to understanding why the EMPA-REG Outcomes results came as a surprise. The...
Source: Diabetologia - June 10, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Empagliflozin for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An Overview of Phase 3 Clinical Trials.
Abstract Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have a unique mechanism of action leading to excretion of glucose in the urine and subsequent lowering of plasma glucose. This mechanism is independent of β-cell function; thus, these agents are effective treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) at theoretically any disease stage. This class should not confer an additional risk of hypoglycemia (unless combined with insulin or an insulin secretagogue) and has the potential to be combined with other classes of glucose-lowering agents. Empagliflozin is one of three currently approved SGLT2 inhibitors in...
Source: Current Diabetes Reviews - June 12, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Levine MJ Tags: Curr Diabetes Rev Source Type: research

Novel antidiabetic drugs and cardiovascular risk: primum non nocere
Conclusions Results of safety outcome studies focused on CV events, including HF and mortality for CV causes, are not homogeneous. A critical analysis of these studies may help cardiologists and diabetes specialists to adapt their therapeutic choices to individual patients.
Source: Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases - June 15, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research

Sodium Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in the Treatment of Diabetes: Cardiovascular and Kidney Effects, Potential Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.
Abstract Sodium glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, including empagliflozin, dapagliflozin and canagliflozin, are now widely approved anti-hyperglycemic therapies. Due to their unique glycosuric mechanism, SGLT2 inhibitors also reduce weight. Perhaps more importantly are osmotic diuretic and natriuretic effects contributing to plasma volume contraction, and decreases in systolic and diastolic blood pressures (BP) by 4-6/1-2 mmHg, respectively, which may underlie cardiovascular and kidney benefits. SGLT2 inhibition is also associated with an acute, dose-dependent reduction in eGFR by ~5 ml/min/1.73m(2) and...
Source: Circulation - July 27, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Heerspink HJ, Perkins BA, Fitchett DH, Husain M, Cherney DZ Tags: Circulation Source Type: research

Empagliflozin: Role in Treatment Options for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
AbstractEmpagliflozin is an oral treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), one of the leading causes of death in the US and around the world. Recently, the EMPA-REG OUTCOME study has shown that empagliflozin added to standard of care treatment reduced the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events in patients with T2DM who were also at increased CV risk. The risk of major adverse CV events (MACE: first occurrence of CV death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, or non-fatal stroke) was reduced by 14% relative to placebo (HR 0.86; 95.02% CI: 0.74 –0.99;P = 0.04 for superiority). The risk of CV death was reduced by 38% relativ...
Source: Diabetes Therapy - November 10, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibition for the reduction of cardiovascular events in high-risk patients with diabetes mellitus
Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) exhibit an increased risk for cardiovascular (CV) events. Hyperglycaemia itself contributes to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and heart failure (HF) in these patients, but glucose-lowering strategies studied to date have had little to no impact on reducing CV risk, especially in patients with a long duration of T2D and prevalent CV disease (CVD). Sodium glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are a novel class of anti-hyperglycaemic medications that increase urinary glucose excretion, thus improving glycaemic control independent of insulin. The recently published CV outc...
Source: European Heart Journal - November 16, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Marx, N., McGuire, D. K. Tags: Clinical update Source Type: research

Liraglutide and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes: Results of the LEADER Trial
ASN 2016 High Impact Clinical Trial Johannes F. Mann, Kristine Brown Fandsen, Gilbert Daniels, Peter Kristensen, Michael Nauck, Steve Nissen, Stuart Pocock, Neil Poulter, Soren Rasmussen, William Steinberg, Mette Stockner, Bernard Zinman, Florian Baeres, Richard Bergenstal, Steve Marso, John Buse. Erlangen, Germany. Liraglutide, as compared to placebo, was studied in a RCT of 9340 high-risk type 2 diabetic patients to examine the impact on the primary composite outcome of nonfatal MI, nonfatal stroke, and cardiovascular death.  The secondary renal endpoint (composite of doubling serum creatinine, ESRD, death due to renal ...
Source: Nephrology Now - November 19, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Nephrology Now editors Tags: Clinical Trial Results Conference Alert Source Type: research

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i): their role in cardiometabolic risk management.
CONCLUSION: Multiple metabolic benefits may account for the positive clinical outcomes in the EMPA-REG OUTCOME study. Ongoing CV outcome trials involving other SGLT2i will help establish whether the reported CV and microvascular risk benefits are compound-specific or drug class effects. PMID: 28088910 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Pharmaceutical Design - January 12, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Katsiki N, Mikhailidis DP, Theodorakis MJ Tags: Curr Pharm Des Source Type: research

Antidiabetic agents and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with heart diseases.
This article reviews evidence of benefits and risk of antidiabetic agents in cardiovascular (CV) outcomes, with a focus on medications approved by the FDA since 2008. Peer-reviewed articles were identified from MEDLINE and Current Content database (both 1966 to October 1, 2016) using the search terms insulin, metformin, rosiglitazone, pioglitazone, glyburide, glipizide, glimepiride, acarbose, miglitol, albiglutide, exenatide, liraglutide, lixisenatide, dulaglutide, pramlintide, meglitinide, alogliptin, linagliptin, saxagliptin, sitagliptin, canagliflozin, dapagliflozin, empagliflozin, colesevalam, bromocriptine, mortality,...
Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - January 19, 2017 Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research

Integration of recent evidence into management of patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes
Publication date: Available online 26 January 2017 Source:The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Author(s): Eberhard Standl, Oliver Schnell, Darren K McGuire, Antonio Ceriello, Lars Rydén Cardiovascular outcome trials of antihyperglycaemic drugs and non-statin LDL-cholesterol-lowering drugs in patients with type 2 diabetes who have, or who are at high risk of, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease have provided new evidence that has substantially affected the management of cardiovascular risk in these patients. On the basis of proven cardiovascular and renal benefit, the antihyperglycaemic drugs empagliflozin, lira...
Source: The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology - January 25, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

SAVOR-TIMI to SUSTAIN-6: A critical comparison of cardiovascular outcome trials of anti-diabetic drugs.
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Since the inception of mandatory cardiovascular (CV) safety outcome trial (CVOT) promulgated by US Food and Drug Administration in 2008, seven trials have so far been published with three different classes of anti-diabetic drugs in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This mini-review aims to critically analyse these CVOTs in terms of different outcomes achieved. Areas covered: An electronic search pertaining to the subject was conducted till September 2016. The three CVOT conducted with saxagliptin, alogliptin and sitagliptin respectively, found them to be CV-neutral. However, both saxagliptin ...
Source: Pharmacological Reviews - January 24, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Singh AK, Singh R Tags: Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol Source Type: research

SAVOR-TIMI to SUSTAIN-6: a critical comparison of cardiovascular outcome trials of antidiabetic drugs.
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Since the inception of mandatory cardiovascular (CV) safety outcome trial (CVOT) promulgated by US FDA in 2008, seven trials have so far been published with three different classes of antidiabetic drugs in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This mini-review aims to critically analyse these CVOTs in terms of different outcomes achieved. Areas covered: An electronic search pertaining to the subject was conducted till September 2016. The three CVOT conducted with saxagliptin, alogliptin and sitagliptin respectively, found them to be CV-neutral. However, both saxagliptin and alogliptin showed an i...
Source: Pharmacological Reviews - March 31, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Singh AK, Singh R Tags: Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol Source Type: research

Sodium ‐glucose co‐transporter 2 inhibitors for type 2 diabetes mellitus: An overview for the primary care physician
ConclusionsSGLT2 inhibitors are an exciting addition to the list of available agents for T2DM, and may be suitable for various types of patients who need additional glycaemic control.
Source: International Journal of Clinical Practice - March 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Paresh Dandona, Ajay Chaudhuri Tags: REVIEW ARTICLE Source Type: research