PMID- 24996388 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150729 LR - 20181202 IS - 1444-2892 (Electronic) IS - 1443-9506 (Linking) VI - 23 IP - 11 DP - 2014 Nov TI - New treatments for type 2 diabetes: cardiovascular protection beyond glucose lowering? PG - 997-1008 LID - S1443-9506(14)00503-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.hlc.2014.05.007 [doi] AB - The health burden of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increasing worldwide, with a substantial portion of this burden being due to the development of cardiovascular (CV) disease. Multiple individual randomised clinical trials of intensive versus conventional glucose control, based on the use of traditional oral hypoglycaemic agents, have failed to convincingly show that intensive glucose control significantly reduces CV disease outcomes. In recent times, two new approaches to lowering glucose levels have become available. One targets the "incretin effect" which involves the modulation of peptide hormones that normally regulate glucose levels when nutrients are given orally. The other approach is based on inhibiting the sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT-2) in the tubules of the kidney to promote glycosuria. Incretin-based therapies, especially glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor analogues, reduce glucose levels, with a low risk of hypoglycaemia, by increasing insulin secretion, inhibiting glucagon release and increasing satiety. Clinical and experimental studies have also shown favourable effects on CV disease risk factors such as dyslipidaemia, blood pressure, and improvements in endothelial function and cardiac contractility. Similarly, SGLT-2 inhibitors reduce glucose levels with a low risk for hypoglycaemia and have positive effects on multiple CV disease risk factors. Whether the beneficial effects of these new glucose lowering approaches on surrogate markers of CV disease risk translates to an improvement in CV events remains unknown. Several CV outcome trials are currently being performed to show that at a minimum, these novel glucose lowering agents are safe, but also have positive CV benefits. CI - Copyright (c) 2014 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Jayawardene, Dilshani AU - Jayawardene D AD - Departments of Endocrinology & Diabetes and Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne & University of Melbourne, Australia. FAU - Ward, Glenn M AU - Ward GM AD - Departments of Endocrinology & Diabetes and Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne & University of Melbourne, Australia. FAU - O'Neal, David N AU - O'Neal DN AD - Departments of Endocrinology & Diabetes and Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne & University of Melbourne, Australia. FAU - Theverkalam, Geetha AU - Theverkalam G AD - Departments of Endocrinology & Diabetes and Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne & University of Melbourne, Australia. FAU - MacIsaac, Andrew I AU - MacIsaac AI AD - Department of Cardiology, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne & University of Melbourne, Australia. FAU - MacIsaac, Richard J AU - MacIsaac RJ AD - Departments of Endocrinology & Diabetes and Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne & University of Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: r.macisaac@unimelb.edu.au. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20140610 PL - Australia TA - Heart Lung Circ JT - Heart, lung & circulation JID - 100963739 RN - 0 (Blood Glucose) RN - 0 (Incretins) RN - 0 (SLC5A2 protein, human) RN - 0 (Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2) RN - 0 (Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors) RN - 89750-14-1 (Glucagon-Like Peptide 1) SB - IM MH - Blood Glucose/metabolism MH - Diabetes Complications/blood/urine MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/blood/*drug therapy/urine MH - Glucagon-Like Peptide 1/*therapeutic use MH - Humans MH - Incretins/*therapeutic use MH - Kidney Tubules/metabolism MH - Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2/metabolism MH - *Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cardiovascular OT - DPP-4 OT - GLP-1 OT - Glucose OT - SGLT-2 OT - Type 2 diabetes EDAT- 2014/07/06 06:00 MHDA- 2015/07/30 06:00 CRDT- 2014/07/06 06:00 PHST- 2014/05/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/05/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/07/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/07/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/07/30 06:00 [medline] AID - S1443-9506(14)00503-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.hlc.2014.05.007 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Heart Lung Circ. 2014 Nov;23(11):997-1008. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2014.05.007. Epub 2014 Jun 10.