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Effects of Empagliflozin on Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction According to Age: a Secondary Analysis of EMPEROR-Reduced
Eur J Heart Fail. 2022; online ahead of print DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.2707
Results from EMPEROR-Reduced demonstrated that empagliflozin improved CV and renal outcomes in patients with HFrEF, but its efficacy and safety across patient's age is not well established.
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Empagliflozin in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
N Engl J Med. 2022; online ahead of print
Among a wide range of at-risk patients with CKD, empagliflozin reduced progression of kidney disease or death from CV causes compared with placebo in the EMPA-KIDNEY trial.
Previous large trials involving patients with diabetic kidney disease and albuminuria have shown that SGLT2i reduce the risk of progression to kidney failure; however, most patients with CKD have low levels of albuminuria (UACR <300 mg/g) and do not have diabetes.
Finerenone efficacy in patients with chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Pharmacother. 2022; online ahead of print DOI: 10.1093/ehjcvp/pvac054
Finerenone reduced the risk of CV and kidney outcomes consistently across the spectrum of CKD in patients with T2D, irrespective of prevalent ASCVD.
Empagliflozin for Heart Failure With Preserved Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction With and Without Diabetes
Circulation 2022; online ahead of print
In patients enrolled in EMPEROR-Preserved, empagliflozin significantly reduced the risk of heart failure (HF) outcomes irrespective of diabetes status.
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Empagliflozin and Incidence of Events Consistent With Acute Kidney Injury: Pooled Safety Analysis in More Than 15,000 Individuals
Diabetes Obes Metab 2022;24:1390-3 doi: 10.1111/dom.14694
In this pooled analysis of patients from the global empagliflozin trial programme, the risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) and acute kidney disease (AKD) with empagliflozin was comparable with placebo. This comprehensive analysis indicates that empagliflozin is not associated with an increased risk of acute kidney failure compared with placebo treatment.
Finerenone in patients with CKD and T2D with and without heart failure: A prespecified subgroup analysis of the FIDELIO-DKD trial
PMID: 35239204 DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.2469
This subgroup analysis of the FIDELIO-DKD trial discovered that finerenone improved cardiorenal outcome in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes.
Semaglutide Once a Week in Adults With Overweight or Obesity, With or Without Type 2 Diabetes in an East Asian Population (STEP 6): A Randomised, Double-Blind, Double-Dummy, Placebo Controlled, Phase 3a Trial
Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2022;10:193–206. doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(22)00008-0
In this Phase 3a trial in an east Asian population, semaglutide 2.4 mg QW was shown to have superior and clinical meaningful reductions in bodyweight versus placebo, as well as greater reductions in abdominal visceral fat.
Liraglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes
N Engl J Med 2016;375:311–22 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1603827
The LEADER trial demonstrated CV benefits with liraglutide, and showed that the rate of the first occurrence of death from cardiovascular (CV) causes, nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), or nonfatal stroke among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) was lower with liraglutide than with placebo.