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✅SGLT2i's in Heart failure (particularly EMPEROR-Preserved results)
✅Heart Failure Guidelines
✅Finerenone
✅Hypertension
✅Much, much, more
5) So let's start today with the EMPEROR-Preserved Trial
📍🥇 fully-completed large RCT using SGLT2i in people with ejection fraction (EF) >40% to report
📍10mg empagliflozin vs placebo
📍in people with and without #type2diabetes
📍NYHA class II-IV
📍mean follow-up 26 months
6) So what was the population studied?
📍Approximately 2/3 had an ejection fraction on echo of 40-50% (ESC 'mildly-reduced' range)
📍82% NYHA class II
📍45%♀️
📍51% had #atrialfibrillation
📍half had reduced kidney function
7) WOW‼️
Treatment with empagliflozin 10mg gave us this
Primary outcome (composite of 🏥💔 plus CV☠️)
⤵️21% relative risk reduction (29% ⤵️🏥💔)
⤵️3.3% absolute risk reduction
📍NNT of 30❗️
📍Benefits seen within 18 days 👏👏👏
📍No difference age, gender, baseline renal function & background therapy
⚠️Benefits attenuated at higher EFs (more on this later today)
10) Key secondary outcomes
27%⤵️ Total (1st and recurrent) 🏥💔
⤵️Renal function decline (i.e. some preservation of kidney function)❗️
📍no change in All-Cause☠️
📍although CV☠️ was only half of causes of death in this study
11) What about Quality of Life and functional capacity?
Statistically significant ⤴️ Quality of life (as measured by KCCQ score)
⤴️ in average functional capacity
📍Bottom-line. Small but statistically significant improvements seen in both parameters
12) ⚠️ADVERSE EFFECTS⚠️
✅well tolerated overall
✅No increase in Hypoglycaemia, ketoacidosis, bone fractures and lower limb amputations
⚠️⤴️Hypotension (NNH=55)
⚠️⤴️genital infections (NNH=66)
13) In Conclusion!
✅🥇 RCT to show prognostic benefits in #HeartFailure with EF>40%
📍empagliflozin 10mg
✅⤵️🏥💔 & CV☠️ (NNT 30)
✅recurrent ⤵️🏥💔
✅some kidney function preservation
✅some ⤴️ in quality of life & function
🤔 no change in all-cause☠️
✅Well tolerated
14) What SGLT2i ('flozin') was used in the EMPEROR Preserved Trial?
15) Benefits in the primary endpoint were seen in...
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