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. 2023 Feb 10;128(8):1541–1547. doi: 10.1038/s41416-023-02177-2

Table 2.

Associations between sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor use and mortality among 24,915 non-small cell lung cancer patients.

Number of deaths
/number of patients
HR (95% CI)a
SGLT2 inhibitor use
  No 17,921/24,384 Reference
  Yes 260/531 0.68 (0.60–0.77)
   Duration of use
     <12 months 179/312 0.76 (0.66–0.89)
     ≥12 months 81/219 0.54 (0.44–0.68)
P for trend 0.0001
Canagliflozin use
  No 17,993/24,591 Reference
  Yes 188/324 0.88 (0.76–1.01)
   Duration of use
     <12 months 128/197 0.96 (0.80–1.14)
     ≥12 months 60/127 0.74 (0.58–0.96)
P for trends 0.03
Combination of metformin and SGLT2 inhibitors use
  Neither 12,519/16,688 Reference
  Metformin only 5402/7696 0.93 (0.90–0.96)
  SGLT2 only 70/129 0.71 (0.56–0.89)
  Both 190/402 0.62 (0.54–0.72)

aModels were adjusted for age at diagnosis, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, chronic conditions (chronic kidney disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease), cancer stage, cancer histological types (squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, other types), cancer treatment (cancer-directed surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy and EGFR antagonist) and diabetes duration. All models were also adjusted for metformin use except for the analysis of combination of metformin and SGLT2 inhibitors use.