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Sodium glucose cotransporter (SGLT)-2 inhibitors alleviate the renal stress responsible for sympathetic activation.
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- Effect of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Empagliflozin Enhances Hepatic Glucose Production and Reduces Total-Body Norepinephrine Turnover Rate: A Randomized Trial.Diabetes · 2025Trial
- Impact of baseline left ventricular ejection fraction and body mass index on the effect of 24-week Ipragliflozin treatment on left ventricular diastolic function in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease: insights from the PROCEED trial.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2025Trial
- Verification of the Short-term Effect of SGLT2 Inhibitors on Serum Magnesium Stratified by the Classification of Albuminuria Severity in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2026Article
- SGLT2 Inhibitors: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Outcomes in Cardiology and Diabetology.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Cardiac Sympathetic Innervation and Ventricular Arrhythmias in Structural Heart Disease: Current Peripheral Neuromodulation Therapies and Emerging Therapeutic Targets.Arrhythmia & electrophysiology review · 2025Review
- Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors: a pleiotropic drug in humans with promising results in cats.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- New insights into the cardio-renal benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors and the coordinated role of miR-30 family.Genes & diseases · 2024Review
- Applications of SGLT2 inhibitors beyond glycaemic control.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2024Review
- SGLT2 inhibitor as a potential therapeutic approach in hyperthyroidism-induced cardiopulmonary injury in rats.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2024Article
- Autonomic modulation by SGLT2i or DPP4i in patients with diabetes favors cardiovascular outcomes as revealed by skin sympathetic nerve activity.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Switch to SGLT2 Inhibitors and Improved Endothelial Function in Diabetic Patients with Chronic Heart Failure.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2022Observational
- From Diabetes Care to Heart Failure Management: A Potential Therapeutic Approach Combining SGLT2 Inhibitors and Plant Extracts.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Treatment of diabetes mellitus has borne much fruit in the prevention of cardiovascular disease.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2022Review
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- Sodium Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors: Spotlight on Favorable Effects on Clinical Outcomes beyond Diabetes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- SGLT2 inhibitors in the treatment of type 2 cardiorenal syndrome: Focus on renal tubules.Frontiers in nephrology · 2022Review
- Biomarkers of Volume Overload and Edema in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- Emerging Treatments of Cardiorenal Syndrome: An Update on Pathophysiology and Management.Cureus · 2021Review
- Use of Anti-Diabetic Agents in Non-Diabetic Kidney Disease: From Bench to Bedside.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
This review focuses on the pathogenic role of sodium glucose cotransporter (SGLT)-2 in the development of renal dysfunction and heart failure in patients with diabetes, by emphasizing the concept of reno-cardiac syndrome (kidney injury worsens cardiac condition) and by substantiating the deleterious effect of sympathetic overdrive in this context. Furthermore, the review proposes a mechanistic hypothesis to explain the benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors, specifically that SGLT-2 inhibitors reduce sympathetic activation at the renal level. To illustrate this point, several examples from both animal experiments and clinical observations are introduced. The bidirectional interaction of the heart and kidney were deeply implicated as an exacerbator of heart failure and renal failure without diabetes. Renal cortical ischemia and abnormal glucose metabolism of tubular epithelial cells are likely to exist as common pathologies in nondiabetic heart failure patients. It is no wonder why SGLT-2 inhibitors are specifically being studied even in the absence of diabetes, both for heart failure and also for renal failure.
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