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Diabetes Treatment Shift Coming? Cleveland Clinic’s Nissen Declares Victory

 
• By Cole Werble

A 'complete shift' in diabetes prescribing practices toward cardiovascular protective agents is occurring more slowly than anticipated, but Cleveland Clinic Cardiology chief Steve Nissen is ready to claim success in decade-long effort to shift diabetes drug treatment focus from blood sugar to cardiovascular mortality.

The recognition of cardiovascular mortality benefits from the SGLT2 inhibitor Jardiance (Lilly/Boehringer Ingelheim’s empagliflozin) and the GLP-1 agonist Victoza (Novo Nordisk’s liraglutide) will be one of the major changes in clinical practice during 2017, according to a list of top ten innovations for next year compiled by the Cleveland Clinic.

The Clinic ranked the adoption of cardiovascular-protective diabetes agents number two on its annual list of projected high impact innovations during the Medical Innovation Summit on Oct

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