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. 2020 Oct 6;16(2):113–121. doi: 10.17925/EE.2020.16.2.113

Table 1: Results from landmark cardiovascular outcome trials with SGLT2 inhibitors.

Study Type of subjects, number, median follow-up Drug and dosage CV outcomes Renal outcomes
EMPA-REG OUTCOME48 (NCT01131676) T2DM N=7,020 3.1 years Empagliflozin 10 mg or 25 mg versus placebo, once daily
  • PEP: CV death, non-fatal MI, or non-fatal stroke, 0.86 (0.74–0.99); NI p<0.001, superiority p=0.04

  • All-cause mortality: 0.68 (0.57–0.82)*

  • CV death: 0.62 (0.49–0.77)*

  • HHF: 0.65 (0.50–0.85)*

  • HHF or CV death: 0.66 (0.55–0.79)*

  • MI (fatal or non-fatal): 0.87 (0.70–1.09)

  • Stroke (fatal or non-fatal): 1.18 (0.89–1.56)

EMPA-REG (renal analysis)39
  • Incident or worsening nephropathy: 0.61 (0.53–0.70)

  • Progression to macroalbuminuria: 0.62 (0.54–0.72)

  • Doubling of serum creatinine†: 0.56 (0.39–0.79)

  • Initiation of renal-replacement therapy: 0.45 (0.21–0.97)

  • Worsening of nephropathy‡: 0.54 (0.40–0.75)

CANVAS45§ (NCT01032629) T2DM N=10,142 3.6 years Canagliflozin 100 mg or 300 mg versus placebo, daily
  • PEP: CV death, non-fatal MI, or non-fatal stroke, 0.86 (0.75–0.97); NI p<0.001, superiority p=0.02

  • CV death: 0.87 (0.72–1.06)

  • HHF: 0.67 (0.52–0.87)

  • All-cause mortality: 0.87 (0.74–1.01)

  • MI (fatal or non-fatal): 0.89 (0.73–1.09)

  • Stroke (fatal or non-fatal): 0.87 (0.69–1.09)

  • Progression of albuminuria: 0.73 (0.67–0.79)*

  • Worsening of nephropathy‡: 0.60 (0.47–0.77)*

CREDENCE51 (NCT02065791) T2DM and albuminuric CKD N=4,401 2.6 years Canagliflozin 100 mg versus placebo, daily
  • CV death, MI or stroke: 0.80 (0.67–0.95)*

  • CV death or HHF: 0.69 (0.57–0.83)*

  • All-cause mortality: 0.83 (0.68–1.02)

  • CV death, MI, stroke, HHF or UA: 0.74 (0.63–0.86)

  • HHF: 0.61 (0.47–0.80)*

  • PEP: 0.70 (0.59–0.82)*

  • Worsening of nephropathy‡: 0.66 (0.53–0.81)*

  • ESKD: 0.68 (0.54–0.86)*

DECLARE-TIMI 5852 (NCT01730534) T2DM N=17,160 4.2 years Dapagliflozin 10 mg versus placebo, daily
  • PEP: CV death, non-fatal MI, or non-fatal stroke, 0.93 (0.84–1.03); NI p<0.001, superiority p=0.17

  • CV death: 0.98 (0.82–1.17)

  • CV death or HHF: 0.83 (0.73–0.95)*

  • All-cause mortality: 0.93 (0.82–1.04)

  • HHF: 0.73 (0.61–0.88)*

  • MI (fatal or non-fatal): 0.89 (0.77–1.01)

  • Stroke (fatal or non-fatal): 1.01 (0.84–1.21)

  • Worsening of nephropathy‡: 0.76 (0.67–0.87)

DAPA-HF14 (NCT03036124) HFrEF with and without T2DM N=4,744 18.2 months Dapagliflozin 10 mg versus placebo, daily
  • Composite of HHF or CV death or urgent heart failure visit: 0.74 (0.65–0.85)*

  • HHF: 0.70 (0.59–0.83)*

  • CV death: 0.82 (0.69–0.98)*

  • All-cause death: 0.83 (0.71–0.97)* in HFrEF patients with and without T2DM

Outcomes reported as HR (95% CI).

*Significant.

†Accompanied by eGFR of ≤45 mL/min/1.73 m2.

Worsening nephropathy was defined as doubling of the serum creatinine level and an eGFR of ≤45 mL/min/1.73 m2, the need for continuous renal-replacement therapy, or death due to renal events in EMPA-REG OUTCOME; 40% reduction in eGFR, renal-replacement therapy, or death from renal causes in CANVAS; sustained decrease of ≥40% in eGFR to <60 mL/min/1.73 m2, new end-stage renal disease, or death from any cause in DECLARE-TIMI 58; ESKD, doubling of the creatinine level, or renal death in CREDENCE.

§Pooled data from CANVAS and CANVAS-R.

CANVAS = CANagliflozin cardioVascular Assessment Study; CKD = chronic kidney disease; CREDENCE = Canagliflozin and Renal Events in Diabetes with Established Nephropathy Clinical Evaluation; CV = cardiovascular; DAPA-HF = Dapagliflozin And Prevention of Adverse-outcomes in Heart Failure; DECLARE-TIMI 58 = Dapagliflozin Effect on Cardiovascular Events . Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 58; eGFR = estimated glomerular filtration rate; EMPA-REG = EMPAgliflozin cardiovascular outcome event trial in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients . Removing Excess Glucose; ESKD = end-stage kidney disease; HFrEF = heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; HHF = hospitalisation for heart failure; HR = hazard ratio; MI = myocardial infarction; NI = non-inferiority; PEP = primary end point; SGLT2 = sodium.glucose cotransporter-2; T2DM = type 2 diabetes mellitus; UA= unstable angina.