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Sotagliflozin protects kidney and heart in patients with diabetes and CKD
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Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are medications that lower blood sugar levels and also provide kidney- and heart-related benefits to patients with and without diabetes.
Researchers have found in an exploratory analysis that sotagliflozin, a dual SGLT1 and 2 inhibitor have renoprotective and cardioprotective action among patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
The research will be presented at ASN Kidney Week 2023 November 1-November 5.
The analysis involved data from the SCORED trial, a phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that randomized 10,584 patients with type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and cardiovascular factors to receive sotagliflozin or placebo. The outcomes assessed included kidney and cardiorenal composites derived using laboratory values.
Over a median follow-up of 16 months, 223 events were identified, and sotagliflozin reduced the risk of the composite of sustained ≥50% decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate, estimated glomerular filtration rate <15 mL/min/1.73m2, dialysis, or kidney transplant by 38%. Sotagliflozin also reduced the risk of a cardiorenal composite outcome (the above composite plus cardiovascular- or kidney-related death) by 23%.
“These effects are consistent with what has been reported with other SGLT inhibitors in people with type 2 diabetes at high cardiorenal risk and add to the already reported benefits of sotagliflozin in reducing both heart failure and ischemic events such as myocardial infarction or stroke,” said corresponding author David Cherney, MD CM, PhD, FRCP(C), of the University of Toronto. “Sotagliflozin is now FDA approved under the name ‘INPEFA’ to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death and heart failure events with a broad label that includes patients with heart failure or chronic kidney disease, so the drug is now an option for nephrologists and cardiologists, as well as primary care physicians, to prescribe.”
Reference:
Sotagliflozin protects kidney and heart in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, American Society of Nephrology, Meeting: ASN Kidney Week 2023.
Dr Kartikeya Kohli is an Internal Medicine Consultant at Sitaram Bhartia Hospital in Delhi with super speciality training in Nephrology. He has worked with various eminent hospitals like Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sir Gangaram Hospital. He holds an MBBS from Kasturba Medical College Manipal, DNB Internal Medicine, Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research and Business Development, Fellow DNB Nephrology, MRCP and ECFMG Certification. He has been closely associated with India Medical Association South Delhi Branch and Delhi Medical Association and has been organising continuing medical education programs on their behalf from time to time. Further he has been contributing medical articles for their newsletters as well. He is also associated with electronic media and TV for conduction and presentation of health programs. He has been associated with Medical Dialogues for last 3 years and contributing articles on regular basis.
Dr Kamal Kant Kohli-MBBS, DTCD- a chest specialist with more than 30 years of practice and a flair for writing clinical articles, Dr Kamal Kant Kohli joined Medical Dialogues as a Chief Editor of Medical News. Besides writing articles, as an editor, he proofreads and verifies all the medical content published on Medical Dialogues including those coming from journals, studies,medical conferences,guidelines etc. Email: editorial@medicaldialogues.in. Contact no. 011-43720751