This document summarizes recent developments with SGLT2 inhibitors. It discusses their use in non-diabetic heart failure and kidney disease, where trials have shown benefits. Potential additional uses discussed include NAFLD, obesity, sleep apnea, and PCOS, though evidence is limited. Risks are discussed for using SGLT2 inhibitors in type 1 diabetes or with very low carb diets. In conclusion, SGLT2 inhibitors have cardio-renal-metabolic effects but significant challenges remain in establishing their role for various non-standard conditions.
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15. How do SGLT2 inhibitors help in non diabetic heart failure?
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Packer European Heart Journal (2020) 41, 2393â2396
16. DAPA-HF
DapagliďŹozin arm had lower risk of cardiovascular
death or hospitalization for heart failure, regardless of
the presence or absence of diabetes
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17. EMPEROR-Reduced
EmpagliďŹozin arm had lower risk of cardiovascular
death or hospitalization for heart failure, regardless of
the presence or absence of diabetes
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25. SGLT2 inhibitors and liver - why?
Normal NAFLD NASH Cirrhosis
25% 25% 20%
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26. SGLT2 inhibitors and the liver - why?
Reduce liver fat without weight gain
Should be preferably oral
Should be beneďŹcial for the heart & kidney
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27. SGLT2 inhibitors and liver - how?
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28. SGLT2 and liver - evidence
Why not LOTs?
⢠Diagnosis and staging requires liver biopsy
⢠No âdiscreteâ liver events
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29. SGLT2 and liver -evidence
SGLT-2 inhibitors improve the serum level of liver enzymes, decrease liver fat, and
ďŹbrosis with additional beneďŹcial effects on various metabolic parameters in type 2
diabetes patients with NAFLD
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30. SGLT2 inhibitors and liver - where?
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31. SGLT2 inhibitors and liver - where?
1 SGLT2 inhibitor + Pioglitazone - counteracts the ďŹuid retention and weight gain
induced by Pioglitazone
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32. SGLT2 inhibitors and liver - where?
1 SGLT2 inhibitor + Pioglitazone - counteracts the ďŹuid retention and weight gain
induced by Pioglitazone
2 SGLT2 inhibitor + GLP1RA - different mechanisms of action, potential additional
weight loss
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33. SGLT2 inhibitors and OSA
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34. SGLT2 inhibitors and OSA
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35. SGLT2 inhibitors and SIADH
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36. SGLT2 inhibitors and SIADH
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37. SGLT2 inhibitors and obesity
⢠Given that SGLT2 inhibitors cause â 75 gm glucose loss per day, the expected
weight loss over 24 weeks would be â 7 kg !
⢠But they are far less effective :-(
⢠Compensatory hyperphagia occurs
⢠Combination with appetite suppressants? 1
1
The appetite suppressant must be safe
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40. SGLT2 inhibitors and PCOS
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41. SGLT2 inhibitors and PCOS
SGLT2 inhibitors improved athropometric parameters and body composition, but not
metabolic parameters or hormones in 20 overweight - obese PCOS women treated for
12 weeks
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42. SGLT2 inhibitors in Type 1 diabetes
Starting SGLT2 inhibitors in patients with type 1 diabetes is risky. Extreme caution advised
Achtung!
⢠Euglycemic DKA canât be detected by blood glucose monitoring
⢠Glucose centric monitoring â Ketone centric monitoring
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43. Therapeutic augmentation of LCHF diet
Starting LCHF diet in diabetes patients on SGLT2 inhibitors is dangerous and must not
be done without medical supervision
Achtung!
⢠In patients with refractory epilepsy it has been attempted 2
⢠Potential use in adults with obesity?
2
Blunck JR et al. Therapeutic augmentation of ketogenic diet with a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2
inhibitor in a super-refractory status epilepticus patient. Epilepsy Behav Case Rep. 2018;10:61-64.
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