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SUBMITTER: Zelniker TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6396066 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zelniker Thomas A TA Braunwald Eugene E
Cardiac failure review 20190201 1
Patients with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of developing heart failure, cardiovascular death and renal failure. The recent results of three large sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor cardiovascular outcomes trials have demonstrated a reduction in heart failure hospitalisation and progressive renal failure. One trial also showed a fall in cardiovascular and total death. A broad spectrum of patients with diabetes benefit from these salutary effects in cardiac and renal function and so ...[more]