Incident heart failure, arrhythmias and cardiovascular outcomes with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor use in patients with diabetes: Insights from a global federated electronic medical record database



Fawzy, Ameenathul Mazaya, Miguel Rivera-Caravaca, Jose, Underhill, Paula, Fauchier, Laurent and Lip, Gregory YH
(2023) Incident heart failure, arrhythmias and cardiovascular outcomes with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor use in patients with diabetes: Insights from a global federated electronic medical record database. DIABETES OBESITY & METABOLISM, 25 (2). pp. 602-610.

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Abstract

<h4>Aim</h4>To investigate the impact of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors on the risk of incident heart failure and adverse cardiovascular outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>All patients with diabetes who were registered between January 2018 and December 2019 were identified from a federated electronic medical record database (TriNetX) and followed up for 2 years. A 1:1 propensity-score matching (PSM) analysis was performed to balance the SGLT2 inhibitor and non-SGLT2 inhibitor cohorts. The primary outcome was incident heart failure. Secondary outcomes included all-cause mortality, cardiac arrest, ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF), incident atrial fibrillation (AF), ischaemic stroke/transient ischaemic attack (TIA), composite of arterial and venous thrombotic events, and composite of incident VT/VF and cardiac arrest.<h4>Results</h4>A total of 131 189 and 2 692 985 patients were treated with and without SGLT2 inhibitors, respectively. After PSM, 131 188 patients remained in each group. The risk of incident heart failure was significantly lower in the SGLT2 inhibitor cohort compared to the non-SGLT2 inhibitor cohort (hazard ratio [HR] 0.70, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.68-0.73). SGLT2 inhibitor use was also associated with a significantly lower risk of all-cause mortality (HR 0.61, 95% CI 0.58-0.64), cardiac arrest (HR 0.70, 95% CI 0.63-0.78), incident AF (HR 0.81, 95% CI 0.76-0.84), ischaemic stroke/TIA (HR 0.90, 95% CI 0.88-0.93), composite of arterial and venous thrombotic events (HR 0.90, 95% CI 0.88-0.92), and composite of incident VT/VF and cardiac arrest (HR 0.76, 95% CI 0.71-0.81). There were no significant differences for VT/VF (HR 0.94, 95% CI 0.88-1.00).<h4>Conclusion</h4>Use of SGLT2 inhibitors was associated with a significant reduction in the risk of incident heart failure and adverse cardiovascular outcomes but not ventricular arrhythmias.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: cardiovascular outcomes, diabetic, incident heart failure, prognosis, SGLT2 inhibitors
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Faculty Management Office
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 Nov 2022 15:41
Last Modified: 11 May 2023 10:38
DOI: 10.1111/dom.14854
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.14854
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3166062