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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2019 Apr 8;139(25):2822–2830. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.039177

Table 2.

Incidence rates and hazard ratios for hospitalization for heart failure in 1:1 PS-matched initiators of empagliflozin vs. sitagliptin.

Empagliflozin Sitagliptin
Patient population N events
(IR/1000 PY)
N events
(IR/1000 PY)
HR
(95% CI)
All patients 16,443 16,443
HHF-Specific* 16 (2.1) 48 (6.7) 0.50 (0.28-0.91)
HHF-Broad 78 (10.5) 158 (22.2) 0.51 (0.39-0.68)
Patients with CV history 4,034 4,034
HHF-Specific* 12 (7.0) 30 (16.9) 0.55 (0.27-1.10)
HHF-Broad 60 (35.1) 106 (60.7) 0.60 (0.44-0.83)
Patients without CV history 12,342 12,342
HHF-Specific* <11§ (0.5) 14 (2.6) 0.41 (0.10-1.68)
HHF-Broad 16 (2.8) 40 (7.4) 0.40 (0.22-0.73)
Patients with HF history 1,934 1,934
HHF-Specific* 12 (14.5) 25 (29.4) 0.54 (0.27-1.09)
HHF-Broad 51 (62.7) 87 (104.7) 0.61 (0.43-0.86)
Patients without HF history 14,405 14,405
HHF-Specific* <11§ (0.6) 11 (1.7) 0.60 (0.18-2.07)
HHF-Broad 25 (3.8) 50 (7.9) 0.52 (0.32-0.85)
Gender-Male 8,690 8,690
HHF-Specific* <11§ (2.5) 26 (6.7) 0.48 (0.23-1.02)
HHF-Broad 48 (11.8) 89 (23.0) 0.56 (0.40-0.80)
Gender-Female 7,637 7,637
HHF-Specific* <11§ (1.8) 17 (5.2) 0.67 (0.25-1.83)
HHF-Broad 31 (9.4) 58 (17.7) 0.57 (0.37-0.89)
Empagliflozin 10mg 10,204 10,204
HHF-Specific* 11 (2.6) 28 (6.2) 0.66 (0.32-1.39)
HHF-Broad 45 (10.8) 99 (22.0) 0.53 (0.37-0.75)
Empagliflozin 25mg 7,396 7,396
HHF-Specific* <11§ (1.8) 23 (7.2) 0.48 (0.18-1.26)
HHF-Broad 34 (10.3) 73 (22.8) 0.49 (0.32-0.74)

HHF: hospitalization for heart failure; PS: propensity-score; IR: incidence rate; PY: person-years; HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence intervals; CV: cardiovascular.

*

Discharge diagnosis of HF in the primary position

Discharge diagnosis of HF in any position

Defined as history of myocardial infarction, unstable angina, coronary atherosclerosis and other forms of chronic ischemic heart disease, coronary procedure, heart failure, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attack, peripheral arterial disease or surgery, lower extremity amputation

§

In accordance with the data use agreement, we do not report information for frequency cells with less than 11 cases. These are noted as <11

Defined as history of heart failure or use of loop diuretics