Diabetes

ADA: Empagliflozin linked to reduction in T2DM nephropathy

(HealthDay)—For patients with type 2 diabetes at high cardiovascular risk, empagliflozin is associated with a reduction in incident or worsening nephropathy, according to a study published online June 14 in the New England ...

Cardiology

Diabetes drug can treat and reverse heart failure and reduce

Empagliflozin, a recently developed diabetes drug, can effectively treat and reverse heart failure in both diabetic and non-diabetic patients, according to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Diabetes

Plasma volume changes may mediate effects of empagliflozin

(HealthDay)—The reduction in risk of cardiovascular (CV) death with empagliflozin is most mediated by changes in hematocrit and hemoglobin, according to research published online Dec. 4 in Diabetes Care.

Medications

Empagliflozin offers clinical benefit in heart failure

For patients hospitalized for acute heart failure, treatment with the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor empagliflozin produces clinical benefit, according to a study published online April 4 in Circulation ...

Medications

Empagliflozin improves HbA1c in young people with T2DM

For young people, empagliflozin is associated with improvement in glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), according to a study published in the March issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

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