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. 2022 Jan 6;21:4. doi: 10.1186/s12933-021-01436-x

Table 2.

Amount excreted in urine over 24 h of biomarkers after empagliflozin/dapagliflozin treatment

At baseline After placebo After verum
p-value [adj. p-value] vs. baseline (n) p-value [adj. p-value] vs. baseline (n) p-value [adj. p-value] vs. placebo (n)
Empagliflozin
 Homoarginine 2.66 ± 3.03 2.45 ± 2.46 0.562 [0.705] (68) 2.11 ± 2.03 0.265 [0.441] (70) 0.085 [0.213] (69)
 Arginine 28.39 ± 16.82 26.82 ± 18.37 0.422 [0.613] (68) 26.87 ± 15.59 0.781 [0.863] (69) 0.654 [0.795] (70)
 ADMA 52.01 ± 15.30 51.64 ± 14.59 0.280 [0.450] (70) 44.11 ± 14.89  < 0.001 [< 0.001] (71)  < 0.001 [0.001] (70)
 SDMA 42.63 ± 12.32 40.80 ± 11.00 0.102 [0.242] (70) 41.07 ± 12.65 0.114 [0.257] (71) 0.759 [0.863] (70)
 Creatinine 10.95 ± 3.93 10.57 ± 3.13 0.207 [0.373] (70) 9.62 ± 3.09  < 0.001 [0.001] (71) 0.016 [0.048] (70)
Dapagliflozin
 Homoarginine 2.64 ± 5.21 2.58 ± 3.66 0.734 [0.831] (59) 2.07 ± 1.58 0.443 [0.604] (57) 0.984 [0.984] (57)
 Arginine 25.67 ± 17.27 30.55 ± 20.44 0.007 [0.053] (59) 32.32 ± 23.70 0.006 [0.053] (58) 0.441 [0.604] (58)
 ADMA 47.77 ± 15.51 50.94 ± 16.97 0.174 [0.313] (59) 47.76 ± 17.90 0.923 [0.966] (58) 0.160 [0.313] (58)
 SDMA 42.12 ± 12.13 44.85 ± 15.03 0.521 [0.670] (59) 41.87 ± 13.07 0.801 [0.879] (58) 0.172 [0.313] (58)
 Creatinine 10.63 ± 3.96 11.15 ± 5.32 0.419 [0.604] (59) 10.22 ± 3.70 0.167 [0.313] (58) 0.069 [0.163] (58)

Data are given in µmol for hArg, Arg, ADMA, and SDMA, for creatinine in mmol, all as mean ± SD; p-values calculated by Wilcoxon signed-rank test, adj. p-values computed based on the procedure of Benjamini and Hochberg¸ p-values refer to the absolute changes in biomarker amount