Focus on empagliflozin : post hoc analyses of the cardiovascular outcome trial EMPA-REG OUTCOME

peer reviewedEMPA-REG OUTCOME trial studied the cardiovascular safety of empagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, compared to placebo, in patients with type 2 diabetes and high cardiovascular risk. It showed a significant reduction of major cardiovascular events (-14 %), cardiovascular mortality (-38 %), all-cause death (-32 %), hospitalisations for heart failure (-35 %) and progression of renal disease (-39 %). This article proposes an update, almost 4 years after the original publication, of recent post hoc analyses of this landmark study