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Cardiovascular Benefits of SGLT2 Inhibitors: A Class Effect?

 
• By John Davis

The first large real-world evidence study has found SGLT2 inhibitors cut the rate of hospitalizations for heart failure and all-cause mortality in patients at low risk of cardiovascular events, but the results of CV outcomes studies are awaited to confirm the findings.

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Preliminary evidence that the cardiovascular benefits ascribed to Boehringer Ingelheim GMBH/Eli Lilly & Co.’s Jardiance (empagliflozin) may be a feature of all SGLT2 inhibitors has come from a recent real-world data analysis supported by AstraZeneca PLC, but definitive evidence still awaits a series of cardiovascular outcomes studies with individual antidiabetic agents.

The analysis of AstraZeneca’s CVD-REAL study, presented last weekend at the American College of Cardiology meeting, did not break out...

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