ArticleAnnals of internal medicine2020
Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and the Risk for Diabetic Ketoacidosis : A Multicenter Cohort Study.
Article in Annals of internal medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It reports registered trial NCT04017221. Cited by 102 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Safety of Sodium-glucose Cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) Inhibitors Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: a Multicenter Cohort Study
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102 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic literature review on the burden of diabetic ketoacidosis in type 2 diabetes mellitus.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2025Pooled it
- Comparative effectiveness and safety of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors vs glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- Adverse effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Heart failure reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Role and mechanisms of SGLT-2 inhibitors in the treatment of diabetic kidney disease.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Pooled it
- Safety of sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Cardiovascular outcomes associated with SGLT-2 inhibitors versus other glucose-lowering drugs in patients with type 2 diabetes: A real-world systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2021 · on this mapPooled it
- Evaluating Intensive Insulin Therapy With Empagliflozin in Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomised Study.Endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism · 2025Trial
- Population-Wide Screening for Chronic Kidney Disease : A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.Annals of internal medicine · 2023Trial
- Finerenone in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes According to Baseline HbA1c and Insulin Use: An Analysis From the FIDELIO-DKD Study.Diabetes care · 2022Trial
- SGLT-2 Inhibitor-Induced Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis Masked by Concurrent Pneumoperitoneum Following Spinal Surgery Under General Anesthesia: A Case Report.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Association of sodium-glucose co-transport protein 2 inhibitor use with clinical outcomes in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors: a pan-tumor propensity-matched analysis.The oncologist · 2026Article
- Prurigo pigmentosa in patient with diabetes on SGLT2 inhibitor.JAAD case reports · 2026Article
- SGLT2 Inhibitors Between Benefits and Euglycemic Ketoacidosis: A Concise Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Potential Benefit of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2-Inhibitors in Cisplatin-Associated Nephrotoxicity Among Patients With Cancer Having Diabetes Mellitus.Kidney international reports · 2026Article
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- Real-world evidence for comparative safety of second-line antihyperglycemic agents in older adults with type 2 diabetes.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Prevalence and outcomes of DKA in type 1 and type 2 DM patients treated and not treated with SGLT-2 inhibitors.Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2026Article
- Serious adverse events reported with sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in the FAERS database (2013-2024): a pharmacovigilance study.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- [Case report of euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis during SGLT-2 inhibition in a female geriatric patient: sick-day-off drug].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2026Article
- Cardiovascular effectiveness and safety of SGLT2 inhibitors vs DPP4 inhibitors by dementia status: a cohort study of older adults with diabetes.Diabetologia · 2026Article
42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
backgroundSodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors could increase the risk for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).
objectiveTo assess whether SGLT-2 inhibitors, compared with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, are associated with an increased risk for DKA in patients with type 2 diabetes.
designPopulation-based cohort study; prevalent new-user design between 2013 and 2018. (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04017221).
settingElectronic health care databases from 7 Canadian provinces and the United Kingdom. PATIENTS: 208 757 new users of SGLT-2 inhibitors were matched by using time-conditional propensity scores to 208 757 recipients of DPP-4 inhibitors. MEASUREMENTS: Cox proportional hazards models estimated site-specific hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% CIs of DKA comparing receipt of SGLT-2 inhibitors with receipt of DPP-4 inhibitors, which were pooled by using random-effects models. Secondary analyses were stratified by molecule, age, sex, and prior receipt of insulin.
resultsOverall, 521 patients were diagnosed with DKA during 370 454 person-years of follow-up (incidence rate per 1000 person-years, 1.40 [95% CI, 1.29 to 1.53]). Compared with DPP-4 inhibitors, SGLT-2 inhibitors were associated with an increased risk for DKA (incidence rate, 2.03 [CI, 1.83 to 2.25] versus 0.75 [CI, 0.63 to 0.89], respectively; HR, 2.85 [CI, 1.99 to 4.08]). Molecule-specific HRs were 1.86 (CI, 1.11 to 3.10) for dapagliflozin, 2.52 (CI, 1.23 to 5.14) for empagliflozin, and 3.58 (CI, 2.13 to 6.03) for canagliflozin. Age and sex did not modify the association; prior receipt of insulin appeared to decrease the risk. LIMITATIONS: There was unmeasured confounding and no laboratory data were available for the majority of patients, and molecule-specific analyses were conducted at a limited number of sites.
conclusionSGLT-2 inhibitors were associated with an almost 3-fold increased risk for DKA, with molecule-specific analyses suggesting a class effect. PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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