Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors in heart failure: beyond glycaemic control. A position paper of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Petar M. Seferovic*, Gabriele Fragasso, Mark Petrie, Wilfried Mullens, Roberto Ferrari, Thomas Thum, Johann Bauersachs, Stefan D. Anker, Robin Ray, Yuksel Cavusoglu, Marija Polovina, Marco Metra, Giuseppe Ambrosio, Krishna Prasad, Jelena Seferovic, Pardeep S. Jhund, Giuseppe Dattilo, Jelena Celutkiene, Massimo Piepoli, Brenda MouraOvidiu Chioncel, Tuvia Ben Gal, Stefan Heymans, Rudolf A. de Boer, Tiny Jaarsma, Loreena Hill, Yuri Lopatin, Alexander R. Lyon, Piotr Ponikowski, Mitja Lainscak, Ewa Jankowska, Christian Mueller, Francesco Cosentino, Lars Lund, Gerasimos S. Filippatos, Frank Ruschitzka, Andrew J. S. Coats, Giuseppe M. C. Rosano

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Abstract

Heart failure (HF) is common and associated with a poor prognosis, despite advances in treatment. Over the last decade cardiovascular outcome trials with sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have demonstrated beneficial effects for three SGLT2 inhibitors (empagliflozin, canagliflozin and dapagliflozin) in reducing hospitalisations for HF. More recently, dapagliflozin reduced the risk of worsening HF or death from cardiovascular causes in patients with chronic HF with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, with or without type 2 diabetes mellitus. A number of additional trials in HF patients with reduced and/or preserved left ventricular ejection fraction are ongoing and/or about to be reported. The present position paper summarises recent clinical trial evidence and discusses the role of SGLT2 inhibitors in the treatment of HF, pending the results of ongoing trials in different populations of patients with HF.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1495-1503
Number of pages9
JournalEuropean journal of heart failure
Volume22
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2020

Keywords

  • CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES
  • Cardiovascular outcomes
  • DAPAGLIFLOZIN
  • DIABETES-MELLITUS
  • EMPAGLIFLOZIN
  • Heart failure
  • KIDNEY-DISEASE
  • MORTALITY
  • Quality of life
  • RATIONALE
  • RESISTANCE
  • SERUM URIC-ACID
  • SGLT2 INHIBITORS
  • Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • MECHANISM

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