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SUBMITTER: Baker WL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5524106 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baker William L WL Buckley Leo F LF Kelly Michael S MS Bucheit John D JD Parod Eric D ED Brown Roy R Carbone Salvatore S Abbate Antonio A Dixon Dave L DL
Journal of the American Heart Association 20170518 5
<h4>Background</h4>Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are a novel class of antihyperglycemic agents that improve glycemic control by increasing glycosuria. Additional benefits beyond glucose lowering include significant improvements in seated clinic blood pressure (BP), partly attributed to their diuretic-like actions. Less known are the effects of this class on 24-hour ambulatory BP, which is a better predictor of cardiovascular risk than seated clinic BP.<h4>Methods and results< ...[more]