scholarly journals A New Hope in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Management: Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors

Cureus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallavi Prakash Chaurasia ◽  
Sagar Dholariya ◽  
Fenilkumar Kotadiya ◽  
Milav Bhavsar
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (20) ◽  
pp. 1818-1849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ban Liu ◽  
Yuliang Wang ◽  
Yangyang Zhang ◽  
Biao Yan

: Type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the most common forms of the disease worldwide. Hyperglycemia and insulin resistance play key roles in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Renal glucose reabsorption is an essential feature in glycaemic control. Kidneys filter 160 g of glucose daily in healthy subjects under euglycaemic conditions. The expanding epidemic of diabetes leads to a prevalence of diabetes-related cardiovascular disorders, in particular, heart failure and renal dysfunction. Cellular glucose uptake is a fundamental process for homeostasis, growth, and metabolism. In humans, three families of glucose transporters have been identified, including the glucose facilitators GLUTs, the sodium-glucose cotransporter SGLTs, and the recently identified SWEETs. Structures of the major isoforms of all three families were studied. Sodium-glucose cotransporter (SGLT2) provides most of the capacity for renal glucose reabsorption in the early proximal tubule. A number of cardiovascular outcome trials in patients with type 2 diabetes have been studied with SGLT2 inhibitors reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. : The current review article summarises these aspects and discusses possible mechanisms with SGLT2 inhibitors in protecting heart failure and renal dysfunction in diabetic patients. Through glucosuria, SGLT2 inhibitors reduce body weight and body fat, and shift substrate utilisation from carbohydrates to lipids and, possibly, ketone bodies. These pleiotropic effects of SGLT2 inhibitors are likely to have contributed to the results of the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial in which the SGLT2 inhibitor, empagliflozin, slowed down the progression of chronic kidney disease and reduced major adverse cardiovascular events in high-risk individuals with type 2 diabetes. This review discusses the role of SGLT2 in the physiology and pathophysiology of renal glucose reabsorption and outlines the unexpected logic of inhibiting SGLT2 in the diabetic kidney.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 204201882110002
Author(s):  
Taeang Arai ◽  
Masanori Atsukawa ◽  
Akihito Tsubota ◽  
Shigeru Mikami ◽  
Hiroki Ono ◽  
...  

Background: Although sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2-Is) improve not only glycemic control but also liver inflammation and fatty changes in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), its sustainability and effect on liver fibrosis have remained unclear. The current study aimed to clarify the effects of 48-week SGLT2-I therapy on liver inflammation, fatty changes, and fibrosis in NAFLD patients with T2DM. Methods: This study evaluated the effects of SGLT2-I on NAFLD, including liver fibrosis assessed via transient elastography, in 56 patients with NAFLD who received SGLT2-I for 48 weeks. Moreover, changes in each clinical parameter between patients receiving SGLT2-I (the SGLT2-I group) and those receiving other oral hypoglycemic agents (OHAs) (the non-SGLT2-I group) were compared, using 1:1 propensity score matching to adjust for baseline factors. Results: The SGLT2-I group exhibited a significant decrease in controlled attenuation parameter (312 dB/m at baseline to 280 dB/m at week 48) and liver stiffness measurement (9.1–6.7 kPa) ( p < 0.001 for both). After propensity score matching (44 patients each in the SGLT2-I and non-SGLT2-I groups), no significant difference in HbA1c decrease was observed between the two groups. However, compared with the non-SGLT2-I group, the SGLT2-I group showed a significant decrease in body weight ( p < 0.001), alanine aminotransferase ( p = 0.02), uric acid ( p < 0.001), and Fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) index ( p = 0.01) at week 48. The improvement in FIB-4 index, defined as a ⩾10% decline from baseline at week 48, was 56.8% (25/44) in the SGLT2-I group and 20.5% (9/44) in the non-SGLT2-I group ( p < 0.001). Conclusion: SGLT2-Is improved not only glycemic control but also liver fatty infiltration and fibrosis in patients with NAFLD and T2DM, suggesting their possible superiority to other OHAs concerning these effects.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin R Cowie

Tweetable abstract Sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors not only improve glycaemic control in Type 2 diabetes mellitus but convincingly improve outcome for everyone with HFrEF and albuminuric kidney disease. Trials then license – now all we need is implementation


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takahiro Kambara ◽  
Rei Shibata ◽  
Hiroyuki Osanai ◽  
Yoshihito Nakashima ◽  
Hiroshi Asano ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (5) ◽  
pp. 110-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Panevin ◽  
M. S. Eliseev ◽  
M. V. Shestakova ◽  
E. L. Nasonov

Currently, only two drugs for reducing uric acid (UA), allopurinol and febuxostat, are registered in the Russian Federation, but their use does not allow to achieve the target level of UA in all cases. According to the results of numerous randomized trials, hyperuricemia and gout are associated with the corresponding components of the metabolic syndrome, including diabetes mellitus. The influence of factors is due to the need to search for new drugs that have a complex effect on several components of metabolic syndrome at once. Potentially attractive in this regard is a new group of drugs for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus inhibitors of the sodium-glucose cotransporter of type 2, which, in addition to the main hypoglycemic actions, showed positive effects on the cardiovascular system, kidneys, as well as lowering UA.


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