IMR Press / RCM / Volume 24 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.31083/j.rcm2402036
Open Access Review
Effects of a New Group of Antidiabetic Drugs in Metabolic Diseases
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1 Unidad de Gestión Clínica de Medicina Interna, Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga, Universidad de Málaga (UMA), 29010 Málaga, Spain
2 Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA-Plataforma Bionand), 29590 Málaga, Spain
3 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
*Correspondence: ricardogomezhuelgas@hotmail.com (Ricardo Gómez-Huelgas); rosa.bernal@ibima.eu (Maria-Rosa Bernal-López)
These authors contributed equally.
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2023, 24(2), 36; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2402036
Submitted: 17 August 2022 | Revised: 18 November 2022 | Accepted: 23 November 2022 | Published: 2 February 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue SGLT2 Inhibition: New Insight in Cardiology)
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising in the general population. This increase leads to higher cardiovascular risk, with cardiovascular diseases being the main cause of death in diabetic patients. New therapeutic weapons for diabetes mellitus are now available. Sodium-glucose cotransporter type 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are novel drugs that are widely used due to their strong benefit in preventing hospitalization for decompensated heart failure and renal protection, limiting the deterioration of the glomerular filtration rate, independently of the presence of diabetes mellitus. These drugs have also shown benefit in the prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular events and cardiovascular mortality in diabetic patients with established cardiovascular disease. On the other hand, patients with T2DM usually present a high burden of associated comorbidities. Some of these entities are arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, hyperuricemia, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), vascular aging, respiratory diseases, or osteoporosis and fractures. Healthcare professionals should treat these patients from an integral point of view, and not manage each pathology separately. Therefore, as potential mechanisms of SGLT2 inhibitors in metabolic diseases have not been fully reviewed, we conducted this review to know the current evidence of the use and effect of SGLT2 inhibitors on these metabolic diseases.

Keywords
SGLT2 inhibitors
metabolic diseases
type 2 diabetes mellitus
Funding
PI18/00766/Instituto de Salud Carlos III
CB06/03/0018/Instituto de Salud Carlos III
CM20/00212/“Rio Hortega” program
CM20/00125/“Rio Hortega” program
CM21/00110/“Rio Hortega” program
CPII/00014/“Miguel Servet Type II” program
C1-0005-2020/“Nicolas Monardes” program
PREDOC-00826/Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades
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