PMID- 26063450 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160620 LR - 20220410 IS - 1522-9645 (Electronic) IS - 0195-668X (Linking) VI - 36 IP - 34 DP - 2015 Sep 7 TI - Impact of glucose-lowering drugs on cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes. PG - 2288-96 LID - 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv239 [doi] AB - Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is characterized by multiple pathophysiologic abnormalities. With time, multiple glucose-lowering medications are commonly required to reduce and maintain plasma glucose concentrations within the normal range. Type 2 diabetes mellitus individuals also are at a very high risk for microvascular complications and the incidence of heart attack and stroke is increased two- to three-fold compared with non-diabetic individuals. Therefore, when selecting medications to normalize glucose levels in T2DM patients, it is important that the agent not aggravate, and ideally even improve, cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) and reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In this review, we examine the effect of oral (metformin, sulfonylureas, meglitinides, thiazolidinediones, DPP4 inhibitors, SGLT2 inhibitors, and alpha-glucosidase inhibitors) and injectable (glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and insulin) glucose-lowering drugs on established CVRFs and long-term studies of cardiovascular outcomes. Firm evidence that in T2DM cardiovascular disease can be reversed or prevented by improving glycaemic control is still incomplete and must await large, long-term clinical trials in patients at low risk using modern treatment strategies, i.e., drug combinations designed to maximize HbA1c reduction while minimizing hypoglycaemia and excessive weight gain. CI - Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. (c) The Author 2015. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oup.com. FAU - Ferrannini, Ele AU - Ferrannini E AD - Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy ferranni@ifc.cnr.it. FAU - DeFronzo, Ralph A AU - DeFronzo RA AD - Diabetes Division, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20150610 PL - England TA - Eur Heart J JT - European heart journal JID - 8006263 RN - 0 (Carbamates) RN - 0 (Cyclohexanes) RN - 0 (Dipeptidyl-Peptidase IV Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor) RN - 0 (Glycoside Hydrolase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Hypoglycemic Agents) RN - 0 (Insulin) RN - 0 (Piperidines) RN - 0 (Sodium-Glucose Transport Proteins) RN - 0 (Sulfonylurea Compounds) RN - 0 (Thiazolidinediones) RN - 41X3PWK4O2 (Nateglinide) RN - 47E5O17Y3R (Phenylalanine) RN - 668Z8C33LU (repaglinide) RN - 9100L32L2N (Metformin) SB - IM MH - Carbamates/therapeutic use MH - Clinical Trials as Topic MH - Coronary Artery Disease/drug therapy/etiology MH - Cyclohexanes/therapeutic use MH - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/*drug therapy/etiology MH - Diabetic Angiopathies/*drug therapy/etiology MH - Dipeptidyl-Peptidase IV Inhibitors/therapeutic use MH - Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor/agonists MH - Glycoside Hydrolase Inhibitors/therapeutic use MH - Humans MH - Hypoglycemic Agents/*therapeutic use MH - Insulin/therapeutic use MH - Metformin/therapeutic use MH - Nateglinide MH - Phenylalanine/analogs & derivatives/therapeutic use MH - Piperidines/therapeutic use MH - Sodium-Glucose Transport Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors MH - Sulfonylurea Compounds/therapeutic use MH - Thiazolidinediones/therapeutic use MH - Treatment Outcome OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cardiovascular disease OT - Cardiovascular risk OT - Glucose-lowering drugs OT - Type 2 diabetes EDAT- 2015/06/13 06:00 MHDA- 2016/06/21 06:00 CRDT- 2015/06/12 06:00 PHST- 2015/04/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/05/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/06/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/06/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/06/21 06:00 [medline] AID - ehv239 [pii] AID - 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv239 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur Heart J. 2015 Sep 7;36(34):2288-96. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv239. Epub 2015 Jun 10.