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Safety of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in Elderly Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials
Diabetes Obes Metab 2023 DOI 10.1111/dom.15193
SGLT2is are effective in preventing adverse outcomes of heart failure and chronic kidney disease, which are highly prevalent in the elderly. While SGLT2is are generally well tolerated, elderly patients may be more susceptible to developing AEs reported with this class of drug, such as infections, fracture, and AKI. Clinical experience with SGLT2is in the elderly and very elderly is limited.
Racial Differences in Quality of Life in Patients With Heart Failure Treated With Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors: A Patient-Level Meta-Analysis of the CHIEF-HF, DEFINE-HF, and PRESERVED-HF Trials
Circulation. 2023; DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.063263
Health status outcomes, including symptoms, function and QoL are worse for Black compared with White patients with HF. However, it is not known whether the health status benefits of SGLT2i are similar across races. This patient-level meta-analysis used data from three US-based trials that enrolled a substantial proportion of Black patients (DEFINE-HF, PRESERVED-HF and CHIEF-HF) to assess the effects of SGLT2is versus placebo on health status for Black compared with White patients with HF.
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Advances in the Management of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction; The Role of SGLT2is, ARNI, Myotropes, Vericiguat, and Anti-inflammatory Agents: A Mini-review
Curr Pharm Des. 2023; online ahead of print DOI: 10.2174/1381612829666230316142450
This mini-review summarises recent data on new treatments for HFrEF. The article highlights that SGLT2i have revolutionised the management of HFrEF via significant reductions in CV mortality and HF hospitalisations. The role of sacubitril/valsartan as a potential replacement for ACEis and ARBS is discussed. New data on promising disease-modifying therapies are highlighted including vericiguat, which restores the impaired cyclic guanosine monophosphate pathway, and omecamtiv mecarbil, which stimulates cardiac myosin without marked arrhythmogenesis. The lack of success in developing anti-inflammatory agents for HFrEF, despite inflammasome activity being implicated in HFrEF pathophysiology, is discussed.
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Effects of Dapagliflozin on Hospitalisations in People with Type 2 Diabetes: Post-hoc Analyses of the DECLARE-TIMI 58 Trial
Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2023;11:233–241 DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(23)00009-8
In patients with T2D at high risk of CV or kidney disease, SGLT2is consistently reduce the risk of HF hospitalisations. Less is known about their effects on hospitalisation from any cause, especially in patients with T2D without ASCVD, which includes most of the global population with T2D. Post hoc analyses of DECLARE-TIMI 58 assessed the effect of dapagliflozin on the risks of hospitalisations for any cause and for specific causes in patients with T2D with and without ASCVD.