Older patients and those with cardiovascular disease are most likely to have an increased risk for lower limb amputation when newly prescribed canagliflozin, relative to a GLP-1 receptor agonist, research shows.
Metformin consistently causes an early reduction in hemoglobin and increases the risk for moderate anemia in patients with type 2 diabetes, a MASTERMIND consortium analysis shows.
The risk for lower limb amputation is not significantly increased among people using SGLT2 inhibitors to treat type 2 diabetes, according to findings from two studies.
Dapagliflozin reduces the risk for cardiovascular events in people with type 2 diabetes, including those with peripheral artery disease, without increasing the risk for adverse limb events, show DECLARE-TIMI 58 data.
Canadian clinicians have reported the case of a woman on long-term rosuvastatin treatment who developed rhabdomyolysis within days of starting on canagliflozin.
An individual patient data meta-analysis confirms the increased heart failure risk associated with rosiglitazone and lends some support to an elevated myocardial infarction risk.
A comparison of CANVAS and CANVAS-R fails to detect any potential explanation for the increased fracture risk seen with canagliflozin versus placebo in the former trial.
The risk for severe urinary tract infections among people with type 2 diabetes in the real-world setting may be no greater with use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors than with other modern antidiabetes medications, research suggests.
Diabetologist Sanjay Kalra puts the CAROLINA trial into historical context and considers the present-day implications for the use of DPP-4 inhibitors and sulfonylureas.
Fournier gangrene remains very rare, but is more common in people using SGLT2 inhibitors compared with other diabetes medications and has severe consequences, shows research.
Research based on insurance claims data indicates that new users of the sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor canagliflozin are no more likely to experience a fracture than new users of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists.
Data from clinical practice suggest the possibility of an increased relative risk for cholangiocarcinoma among patients taking incretin-based antidiabetes medications, although the absolute risk remains small.
How many real-world studies have looked at amputation risk in users of SGLT2 inhibitors, and do the findings support or refute the effect found in CANVAS? medwireNews rounds up the research so far.
A registry study in The BMJ finds a small but significant increased risk for amputations in patients with type 2 diabetes using sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors.
Advisory Board member Theresa Smyth tackles an emergency case in a type 2 diabetes patient treated with empagliflozin. What went wrong and how should he be managed?