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ArticleEuropean heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology2021

Surprises in cardiology: efficacy of gliflozines in heart failure even in the absence of diabetes.

Alessio Bragagni, Federica Piani, Claudio Borghi

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Article in European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alessio BragagniDipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Federica PianiDipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Claudio BorghiDipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
University of Bologna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is now well-established that the therapy of type II diabetes mellitus has undergone a radical change in the past 15 years: countless innovative drugs, such as SGLT2I, able to guarantee an optimization of glycaemic control without causing hypoglycaemia, today represent real therapeutic cornerstones not only for the intrinsic ability of these molecules to ensure better glycaemic control but also for the effects they exert on the cardiovascular system. Several pioneering clinical trials, such as EMPA-REG, CANVAS, and DECLARE-TIMI-58, have demonstrated clear benefits of empagliflozin, canagliflozin, and dapagliflozin, respectively, in reducing cardiovascular risk and diabetes-associated macrovascular complications in the diabetic population. The promising results that emerged from these trials represent the spark that triggered a series of studies aimed at evaluating the efficacy of gliflozines in the treatment of patients with heart failure even in the absence of diabetes. Preliminary results confirm the efficacy of SGLT2I in the treatment of this population, representing a real therapeutic revolution.

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Diabetes mellitusHeart failureSGLT2I

Identifiers

PMID34650352
PMCPMC8503418
OpenAlexW3207781991

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