The Cardiologist’s Role in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes—A Review

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-29
Author(s):  
Carrie Eshelbrenner ◽  
Karina Vasquez ◽  
Liberty O Yanze ◽  
Rene Oliveros ◽  
Robert Chilton

Evidence-based medicine is key to the cardiologist’s role in the management of type 2 diabetes. Proven therapies that reduce cardiovascular (cV) events with few off-target effects are imperative. evidence from epidemiology studies supports the concept that increased blood sugar is correlated with increased cV events. unfortunately, the lowering of glucose with current agents shows limited benefit in reducing cV events. Metformin in the obese individual reduced cV events and is currently first-line therapy in most clinical practice guidelines. recently, a meta-analysis reported that current hypoglycemic agents did not improve cV outcomes and were possibly harmful. Possible exceptions come from the Prospective pioglitazone clinical trial in macrovascular events (Proactive), a secondary prevention trial in patients with prior myocardial infarction in which pioglitazone was found to reduce cV events. glucagon-like peptide-1 (gLP-1) agonists appear to be the most exciting new cV agents, but a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) inhibitor (sitagliptin) combined with a high-dose angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (Acei) (enalapril) may increase blood pressure and heart rate. Lifestyle modification and proven global risk reduction are still the number one ways to reduce cV events in type 2 diabetes.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
guoquan chen ◽  
Jiale Chen ◽  
Xiaoxia Hu ◽  
Jianqing Chen ◽  
Yiling He

Abstract Backgound: Type 2 diabetes mellitus remains a major public health challenge in the worldwide. The control of blood glucose is essential in the metabolic management of diabetes. Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors are new hypoglycemic agents with good hypoglycemic effect. However, the difference of efficacy and tolerability among different kinds of DPP-4 inhibitors remains unclear and no network meta-analysis(NMA) has been performed yet to compare different kinds of DPP-4 inhibitors comprehensively. Our research aims to investigate and rank different kinds of DPP-4 inhibitors on efficacy and tolerability.Methods/design: English language studies will be searched in the electronic databases(PubMed, the Cochrane Library and EMBASE), without time restriction. Parallel-group randomized controlled trials (RCTs) meeting the following criteria will be included, regardless of the blinding design: (1) T2DM patients aged over 18, pregnant or breastfeeding female patients and patients with T2DM on Maintenance Hemodialysis will be excluded, (2) interventions with DPP-4 inhibitors (sitagliptin, saxagliptin, vildagliptin, lindagliptin, alogliptin, omarigliptin and trelagliptin), traditional antidiabetic agents includes α-glucosidase inhibitors, sulphonylureas, non-sulfonylureas and thiazolidinediones, or placebo and (3) change in HbA1c concentration, weight and FPG from baseline to the end of treatment and proportions of patients in achieving HbA1c < 7.0%, patients with treatment-emergent adverse events leading to treatment discontinuation and patients with hypoglycaemia. Random effects pairwise and Bayesian NMA will be performed for these outcomes. Subgroup analyses are carried out for race and dosing frequency.Discussion: Our NMA will be the first to systematically summarize, compare and rank the efficacy and tolerability of different kinds of DPP-4 inhibitors in T2DM patients. We are confident that our research project will significantly contribute to optimizing hypoglycemic therapy.Systematic review registration:PROSPERO:CRD42021253822


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Y. Milder ◽  
Sophie L. Stocker ◽  
Christina Abdel Shaheed ◽  
Lucy McGrath-Cadell ◽  
Dorit Samocha-Bonet ◽  
...  

Background: Guidelines differ with regard to indications for initial combination pharmacotherapy for type 2 diabetes. Aims: To compare the efficacy and safety of (i) sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor combination therapy in treatment-naïve type 2 diabetes adults; (ii) initial high and low dose SGLT2 inhibitor combination therapy. Methods: PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library were searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of initial SGLT2 combination therapy. Mean difference (MD) for changes from baseline (HbA1c, weight, blood pressure) after 24–26 weeks of treatment and relative risks (RR, safety) were calculated using a random-effects model. Risk of bias and quality of evidence was assessed. Results: In 4 RCTs (n = 3749) there was moderate quality evidence that SGLT2 inhibitor/metformin combination therapy resulted in a greater reduction in HbA1c (MD (95% CI); −0.55% (−0.67, −0.43)) and weight (−2.00 kg (−2.34, −1.66)) compared with metformin monotherapy, and a greater reduction in HbA1c (−0.59% (−0.72, −0.46)) and weight (−0.57 kg (−0.89, −0.25)) compared with SGLT2 inhibitor monotherapy. The high dose SGLT2 inhibitor/metformin combination resulted in a similar HbA1c but greater weight reduction; −0.47 kg (−0.88, −0.06) than the low dose combination therapy. The RR of genital infection with combination therapy was 2.22 (95% CI 1.33, 3.72) and 0.69 (95% CI 0.50, 0.96) compared with metformin and SGLT2 inhibitor monotherapy, respectively. The RR of diarrhoea was 2.23 (95% CI 1.46, 3.40) with combination therapy compared with SGLT2 inhibitor monotherapy. Conclusions: Initial SGLT2 inhibitor/metformin combination therapy has glycaemic and weight benefits compared with either agent alone and appears relatively safe. High dose SGLT2 inhibitor/metformin combination therapy appears to have modest weight, but no glycaemic benefits compared with the low dose combination therapy.


Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazue Yamaoka ◽  
Asuka Nemoto ◽  
Toshiro Tango

Background: Many clinical trials have been conducted to verify the effects of interventions for prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2D) using different treatments and outcomes. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of lifestyle modifications (LM) with other treatments in persons at high risk of T2D by a network meta-analysis (NMA). Methods: Searches were performed of PUBMED up to January 2018 to identify randomized controlled trials. The odds ratio (OR) with onset of T2D at 1 year in the intervention group (LM, dietary, exercise, or medication) versus a control group (standard treatments or placebo) were the effect sizes. Frequentist and Bayesian NMAs were conducted. Results: Forty-seven interventions and 12 treatments (20,113 participants) were used for the analyses. The OR in the LM was approximately 0.46 (95% CI: 0.33 to 0.61) times lower compared to the standard intervention by the Bayesian approach. The effects of LM compared to other treatments by indirect comparisons were not significant. Conclusions: This meta-analysis further strengthened the evidence that LM reduces the onset of T2D compared to standard and placebo interventions and appears to be at least as effective as nine other treatments in preventing T2D.


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