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November 2022

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.

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January 2022

Effects of Once-Weekly Exenatide on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes

N Engl J Med 2017;377:1228–39 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1612917

The EXSCEL study showed that among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) with or without previous cardiovascular (CV) disease, the incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) did not differ significantly between patients who received exenatide and those who received placebo.

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