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   <dc:title>Cardiovascular and mortality benefits of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus : CVD-Real Catalonia</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Real, Jordi</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Vlacho, Bogdan</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Ortega, Emilio</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Vallés, Joan Antoni</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Mata-Cases, Manel</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Castelblanco, Esmeralda</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Wittbrodt, Eric T.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Fenici, Peter</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Kosiborod, Mikhail</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Mauricio, Didac</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Franch-Nadal, Josep</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona</dc:creator>
   <dc:subject>SGLT2i</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Heart failure</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>All-cause mortality</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Type 2 diabetes mellitus</dc:subject>
   <dcterms:abstract>Evidence from prospective cardiovascular (CV) outcome trials in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) patients supports the use of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) to reduce the risk of CV events. In this study, we compared the risk of several CV outcomes between new users of SGLT2i and other glucose-lowering drugs (oGLDs) in Catalonia, Spain. CVD-REAL Catalonia was a retrospective cohort study using real-world data routinely collected between 2013 and 2016. The cohorts of new users of SGLT2i and oGLDs were matched by propensity score on a 1:1 ratio. We compared the incidence rates and hazard ratio (HR) for all-cause death, hospitalization for heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and modified major adverse CV event (MACE; all-cause mortality, myocardial infarction, or stroke). After propensity score matching, 12,917 new users were included in each group. About 27% of users had a previous history of CV disease. In the SGLT2i group, the exposure time was 60% for dapagliflozin, 26% for empagliflozin and 14% for canagliflozin. The use of SGLT2i was associated with a lower risk of heart failure (HR: 0.59; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.47-0.74; p &lt; 0.001), all-cause death (HR = 0.41; 95% CI 0.31-0.54; p &lt; 0.001), all-cause death or heart failure (HR = 0.55; 95% CI 0.47-0.63; p &lt; 0.001), modified MACE (HR = 0.62; 95% CI 0.52-0.74; p &lt; 0.001), and chronic kidney disease (HR = 0.66; 95% CI 0.54-0.80; p &lt; 0.001). In this large, retrospective observational study of patients with T2DM from a Catalonia, initiation of SGLT-2i was associated with lower risk of mortality, as well as heart failure and CKD. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12933-021-01323-5.</dcterms:abstract>
   <dcterms:issued>2021</dcterms:issued>
   <dc:type>Article</dc:type>
   <dc:relation>Cardiovascular diabetology ; Vol. 20 (july 2021)</dc:relation>
   <dc:rights>open access</dc:rights>
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   <dc:rights>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</dc:rights>
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