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. 2019 Mar 1;9(3):e025806. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025806

Table 2.

Changes to index therapy: add-on treatment over 12 months according to index antidiabetic drug class in UT patients, n (%)

JMDC database
Index treatment DPP-4i BG SU α-GI TZD Glinide SGLT2i Insulin GLP-1
Pts with add-on therapy n=2839 n=1102 n=364 n=316 n=102 n=50 n=76 n=7 n=8
+DPP-4i NA 748 (67.9) 208 (57.1) 146 (46.2) 57 (55.9) 21 (42.0) 34 (44.7) 4 (57.1) 1 (12.5)
+BG 1324 (46.6) NA 80 (22.0) 85 (26.9) 21 (20.6) 9 (18.0) 28 (36.8) 2 (28.6) 1 (12.5)
+SU 537 (18.9) 66 (6.0) NA 30 (9.5) 8 (7.8) 1 (2.0) 5 (6.6) 0 (0.0) 2 (25.0)
+α-GI 255 (9.0) 40 (3.6) 25 (6.9) NA 4 (3.9) 15 (30.0) 5 (6.6) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
+TZD 293 (10.3) 58 (5.3) 20 (5.5) 16 (5.1) NA 1 (2.0) 1 (1.3) 0 (0.0) 2 (25.0)
+Glinide 79 (2.8) 16 (1.5) 0 (0.0) 17 (5.4) 0 (0.0) NA 0 (0.0) 1 (14.3) 0 (0.0)
+SGLT2i 256 (9.0) 128 (11.6) 11 (3.0) 2 (0.6) 7 (6.9) 2 (4.0) NA 0 (0.0) 2 (25.0)
+Insulin 5 (0.2) 2 (0.2) 1 (0.3) 1 (0.3) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) NA 0 (0.0)
+GLP-1 0 (0.0) 16 (1.5) 2 (0.5) 2 (0.6) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) NA
MDV database
Index treatment DPP-4i BG SU α-GI TZD Glinide SGLT2i Insulin GLP-1
Pts with add-on therapy n=3179 n=878 n=342 n=344 n=81 n=74 n=35 n=24 n=12
+DPP-4i NA 602 (68.6) 215 (62.9) 208 (60.5) 43 (53.1) 42 (56.8) 12 (34.3) 113 (50.4) 0 (0.0)
+BG 1168 (36.7) NA 51 (14.9) 36 (10.5) 14 (17.3) 7 (9.5) 12 (34.3) 26 (11.6) 4 (33.3)
+SU 736 (23.2) 44 (5.0) NA 36 (10.5) 3 (3.7) 1 (1.4) 4 (11.4) 10 (4.5) 4 (33.3)
+α-GI 414 (13.0) 38 (4.3) 29 (8.5) NA 6 (7.4) 15 (20.3) 0 (0.0) 28 (12.5) 1 (8.3)
+TZD 168 (5.3) 29 (3.3) 13 (3.8) 4 (1.2) NA 4 (5.4) 0 (0.0) 1 (0.4) 0 (0.0)
+Glinide 189 (5.9) 9 (1.0) 0 (0.0) 26 (7.6) 2 (2.5) NA 0 (0.0) 12 (5.4) 0 (0.0)
+SGLT2i 190 (6.0) 94 (10.7) 7 (2.0) 5 (1.5) 8 (9.9) 0 (0.0) NA 2 (0.9) 3 (25.0)
+Insulin 239 (7.5) 35 (4.0) 14 (4.1) 19 (5.5) 1 (1.2) 3 (4.1) 1 (2.9) NA 0 (0.0)
+GLP-1 2 (0.1) 10 (1.1) 4 (1.2) 1 (0.3) 0 (0.0) 1 (1.4) 4 (11.4) 0 (0.0) NA

‘+’ indicates add-on therapy with new antidiabetic drug class.

α-GI, α-glucosidase inhibitor; BG, biguanide; DPP-4i, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor; GLP-1, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist; JMDC, Japan Medical Data Center; MDV, Medical Data Vision; NA, not applicable; pts, patients; SGLT2i, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor; SU, sulfonylurea; TZD, thiazolidinedione; UT, untreated.