LANDMARK research that revealed the cardiovascular benefits of empagliflozin2 (Jardiance by Boehringer Ingelheim) in people with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular disease has resulted in new guidelines recommending the product class.
Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) class of medicines, which inhibit reabsorption of glucose in the kidney, now have a specific role described in new guidelines by the National Heart Foundation of Australia and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand.
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