Empagliflozin and Kinetics of Renal Glucose Transport in Healthy Individuals and Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes.

Al-Jobori, Hussein; Daniele, Giuseppe; Cersosimo, Eugenio; Triplitt, Curtis; Mehta, Rucha; Norton, Luke; DeFronzo, Ralph A; Abdul-Ghani, Muhammad · Diabetes · 2017

prospective_cohort · Level II

Where this comes from

Abstract

Renal glucose reabsorption was measured with the stepped hyperglycemic clamp in 15 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and 15 without diabetes after 2 days and after more chronic (14 days) treatment with empagliflozin. Patients with T2DM had significantly greater maximal renal glucose transport (Tm<sub>G</sub>) compared with subjects without diabetes at baseline (459 ± 53 vs. 337 ± 25 mg/min; <i>P</i> < 0.05). Empagliflozin treatment for 48 h reduced the Tm<sub>G</sub> in both individuals with and without diabetes by 44 ± 7 and 53 ± 6%, respectively (both <i>P</i> < 0.001). Tm<sub>G</sub> was further reduced by empagliflozin in both groups on day 14 (by 65 ± 5 and 75 ± 3%, respectively). Empagliflozin reduced the plasma glucose concentration threshold for glucose spillage in the urine similarly in individuals with T2DM and without diabetes to <40 mg/dL, which is well below the normal fasting plasma glucose concentration. In summary, sodium-glucose transporter-2 inhibition with empagliflozin reduces both Tm<sub>G</sub> and threshold for glucose spillage in the urine in patients with T2DM and those without diabetes.

Medical subject headings