Research Article

How Many Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Meet the Inclusion Criteria of the Cardiovascular Outcome Trials with SGLT2 Inhibitors? Estimations from a Population Database in a Mediterranean Area

Table 5

Summary of characteristics of patients enrolled in SGLT2i CVOTs and of patients from the SIDIAP database that would have met the corresponding criteria.

CharacteristicsEMPA-REG OUTCOMECANVASDECLARE-TIMI 58General population (SIDIAP database)

DrugEmpagliflozinCanagliflozinDapagliflozinEmpagliflozin/canagliflozin/dapagliflozin
Participants, 7,02010,14217,160373,185
Male (%)71.564.262.654.9
Age (years), mean (SD)63.1 (8.7)63.3 (8.3)63.9 (6.8)70.1 (12.3)
Patients with established CVD, (%)7,020 (>99)6,656 (66)6,974 (41)EMPA-REG OUTCOME criteria: 86,534 (23.2)
CANVAS criteria: 86,531 (23.2)
DECLARE-TIMI 58 criteria: 86,468 (23.2)
CVRFs, (%)3486 (34)10,186 (59)CANVAS criteria: 189,969 (50.9)
DECLARE-TIMI 58 criteria: 289,126 (77.5)
HbA1c (%), mean (SD)8.1 (0.8)8.2 (0.9)8.3 (1.2)7.12 (1.32)
eGFR (ml/min/1.73 m2), (%)
 ≥605,199 (74.1)8,114 (79.9)15,959 (92.6)241,958 (72)
 <60-301,819 (25.9)2,028 (20.1)1,201 (7.4)80,978 (24)
 <3000013,262 (4)

CVD: cardiovascular disease; CVRF: cardiovascular risk factors; eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate; SD: standard deviation; CVOTs: cardiovascular outcome trials.