Continued efforts to translate diabetes cardiovascular outcome trials into clinical practice

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Review

Giorgio Sesti¹  Enzo Bonora²  Gian Paolo Fadini³  Angelo Avogaro³  Stefano Del Prato⁴ 

[1] Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy;Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, UOC Endocrinologia, University Hospital of Verona, Verona, Italy;Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128, Padova, Italy;Section of Metabolic Diseases and Diabetes, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa, 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy;

关键词: Cardiovascular outcome trials;    Diabetes;    Complications;    Treatment;    Cardiovascular disease;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12933-016-0431-4

 received in 2016-06-21, accepted in 2016-08-02,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Diabetic patients suffer from a high rate of cardiovascular events and such risk increases with HbA1c. However, lowering HbA1c does not appear to yield the same benefit on macrovascular endpoints, as observed for microvascular endpoints. As the number of glucose-lowering medications increases, clinicians have to consider several open questions in the management of type 2 diabetes, one of which is the cardiovascular risk profile of each regimen. Recent placebo-controlled cardiovascular outcome trials (CVOTs) have responded to some of these questions, but careful interpretation is needed. After general disappointment around CVOTs assessing safety of DPP-4 inhibitors (SAVOR, TECOS, EXAMINE) and the GLP-1 receptor agonist lixisenatide (ELIXA), the EMPA-REG Outcome trial and the LEADER trial have shown superiority of the SGLT2-I empagliflozin and the GLP-1RA liraglutide, respectively, on the 3-point MACE outcome (cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction or stroke) and cardiovascular, as well as all-cause mortality. While available mechanistic studies largely support a cardioprotective effect of GLP-1, the ability of SGLT2 inhibitor(s) to prevent cardiovascular death was unexpected and deserves future investigation. We herein review the results of completed CVOTs of glucose-lowering medications and suggest a possible treatment algorithm based on cardiac and renal co-morbidities to translate CVOT findings into clinical practice.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s) 2016