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A new era in the management of type 2 diabetes: Is cardioprotection at long last a reality?
The EMPA-REG OUTCOME and the LEADER trials have revealed a new era in the management of type 2 diabetes. The SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin demonstrated a lower rate of the primary composite outcome of death from cardiovascular causes, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke compared to placebo. Liraglutide, a GLP-1 analogue, succeeded to demonstrate reduction on a composite outcome including first occurrence of cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction or non-fatal stroke. These two medications act through different mechanisms and has consequently shown different patterns of cardiovascular benefit.
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - November 11, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Xavier Rossello, Derek M. Yellon Tags: Editorial 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

Effects of SGLT-2 inhibitors on mortality and cardiovascular events: a comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
ConclusionsAvailable data suggest that the beneficial action observed with empagliflozin on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in EMPAREG OUTCOME study is a class effect. The present meta-analysis showed a significantly reduction in myocardial infarction, with no increased risk of stroke.
Source: Acta Diabetologica - August 3, 2016 Category: Endocrinology 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

Cardiovascular safety of empagliflozin in patients with type 2 diabetes: a meta ‐analysis of data from randomized placebo‐controlled trials
ConclusionsIn a meta‐analysis of data from 8 randomized trials involving 11292 patients with T2DM at low/medium or high CV risk, empagliflozin was associated with a reduced risk of 4‐point MACE and 3‐point MACE compared with placebo.
Source: Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism - July 3, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: A. Salsali, G. Kim, H. J. Woerle, U. C. Broedl, S. Hantel Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Cardiovascular safety of empagliflozin in patients with type 2 diabetes: a meta‐analysis of data from randomized placebo‐controlled trials
ConclusionsIn a meta‐analysis of data from 8 randomized trials involving 11292 patients with T2DM at low/medium or high CV risk, empagliflozin was associated with a reduced risk of 4‐point MACE and 3‐point MACE compared with placebo.
Source: Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism - June 30, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: A. Salsali, G. Kim, H. J. Woerle, U. C. Broedl, S. Hantel Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE 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

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

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

EMPA-REG and Other Cardiovascular Outcome Trials of Glucose-lowering Agents: Implications for Future Treatment Strategies in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
Abstract During the last decade, the armamentarium for glucose-lowering drugs has increased enormously by the development of DPP-4 inhibitors, GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors, allowing individualization of antidiabetic therapy for patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Some combinations can now be used without an increased risk for severe hypoglycemia and weight gain. Following a request of the US Food and Drug Administration, many large cardiovascular (CV) outcome studies have been performed in patients with longstanding disease and established CV disease. In the majority of CV outcome studies, CV ris...
Source: Clinical Therapeutics - May 18, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Schernthaner G, Schernthaner-Reiter MH, Schernthaner GH Tags: Clin Ther Source Type: research

SGLT2 Inhibitors and Cardiovascular Risk: Lessons Learned From the EMPA-REG OUTCOME Study
Although cardiovascular (CV) mortality is the principal cause of death in individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), reduction of plasma glucose concentration has little effect on CV disease (CVD) risk. Thus, novel strategies to reduce CVD risk in T2DM patients are needed. The recently published BI 10773 (Empagliflozin) Cardiovascular Outcome Event Trial in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients (EMPA-REG OUTCOME) study demonstrated that in T2DM patients with high CVD risk empagliflozin reduced the primary major adverse cardiac event end point (CV death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke) by 14%. This beneficial eff...
Source: Diabetes Care - April 20, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Abdul-Ghani, M.; Del Prato, S.; Chilton, R.; DeFronzo, R. A. Tags: Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Source Type: research

Empagliflozin Reduces Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes.
Authors: Guthrie R Abstract Review of: Zinnam, B, Wanner C, Lachin JM, et al. Empagliflozin, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes. New England Journal of Medicine. 2015; 373: 2117-2128. Patients were required to have a history of established cardiovascular disease, along with Type 2 Diabetes but were either not on antidiabetic therapy for the preceding 12 weeks, with a glycated hemoglobin level between 7% and 9%, or were on stable antidiabetic therapy for the preceding 12 weeks, with a glycated hemoglobin between 7.0% and 10.0%. Patients were randomized in a 1:1:1 ratio to either empagliflozin ...
Source: Postgraduate Medicine - April 6, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Postgrad Med Source Type: research

Revitalization of pioglitazone: the optimum agent to be combined with a sodium‐glucose co‐transporter‐2 inhibitor
The recently completed EMPA‐REG study showed that empagliflozin significantly decreased the major adverse cardiac events (MACE) endpoint, which comprised cardiovascular death, non‐fatal myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke, in patients with high‐risk type 2 diabetes (T2DM), primarily through a reduction in cardiovascular death, without a significant decrease in either MI or stroke. In the PROactive study, pioglitazone decreased the MACE endpoint by a similar degree to that observed in the EMPA‐REG study, through a marked reduction in both recurrent MI and stroke and a modest reduction in cardiovascular death. Thes...
Source: Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism - April 5, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: R. A. DeFronzo, R. Chilton, L. Norton, G. Clarke, R. E. J. Ryder, M. Abdul‐Ghani Tags: PERSPECTIVE Source Type: research

Effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors on cardiovascular events, death, and major safety outcomes in adults with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Publication date: Available online 18 March 2016 Source:The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Author(s): Jason H Y Wu, Celine Foote, Juuso Blomster, Tadashi Toyama, Vlado Perkovic, Johan Sundström, Bruce Neal Background In patients with type 2 diabetes, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are known to reduce glucose concentrations, blood pressure, and weight, but to increase LDL cholesterol and the incidence of urogenital infections. Protection against cardiovascular events has also been reported, as have possible increased risks of adverse outcomes such as ketoacidosis and bone fracture. We a...
Source: The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology - March 19, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research

Revitalization of Pioglitazone: The Optimal Agent to be Combined with an SGLT2 Inhibitor
ABSTRACT The recently completed EMPA‐REG study demonstrated that empagliflozin significantly decreased the MACE endpoint (cardiovascular death, nonfatal MI, stroke) in high risk type 2 diabetic patients, primarily due to a reduction in cardiovascular death, without a significant decrease in either myocardial infarction or stroke. In PROactive, pioglitazone decreased the MACE endpoint by a similar degree to that in EMPA‐REG, due to a marked reduction in both recurrent myocardial infarction and stroke and a modest reduction in cardiovascular death. These observations suggest that pioglitazone might be an ideal agent to c...
Source: Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism - February 25, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Ralph A. DeFronzo, Robert Chilton, Luke Norton, Geoffrey Clarke, Robert E.J. Ryder, Muhammad Abdul‐Ghani Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research