ORLANDO – Cardiovascular outcomes were significantly more favorable with sodium glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors compared with other glucose-lowering drugs, according to data from more than 400,000 type 2 diabetes patients in the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and North America.
Data on cardiovascular outcomes from diabetes treatments in patients outside the United States and Europe are limited, said Mikhail Kosiborod, MD, of Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute and University of Missouri–Kansas City.
In fact, most patients with type 2 diabetes reside in the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, he said in a presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Kosiborod was involved in a previous large pharmaco-epidemiologic study known as the Comparative Effectiveness of Cardiovascular Outcomes in New Users of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors (CVD-REAL), that showed SGLT2 inhibitor effects in a broad population of type 2 diabetes patients, but that study included only patients from Europe and North America, and focused on just two outcomes: all-cause mortality and hospitalization for heart failure.
