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Time to cardiovascular benefits of empagliflozin: a post hoc observation from the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial
Subodh Verma, Lawrence A Leiter, Bernard Zinman, Abhinav Sharma, Michaela Mattheus, David Fitchett, Jyothis George, Anne Pernille Ofstad, Mikhail N Kosiborod, Christoph Wanner, Silvio E Inzucchi

Abstract Aims: In the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial, in patients with type 2 diabetes and established atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease, empagliflozin vs. placebo reduced the risk of hospitalization for heart failure (HHF) by 35%, CV death/HHF by 34%, and CV death by 38%, with an early separation of the cumulative incidence curves. We explored at what time point after randomization these benefits became apparent.

Methods and results: We expressed time trajectories for the effect of pooled empagliflozin doses vs. placebo on HHF, CV death/HHF, and CV death based on hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) and calculated the hazard ratio on the day the effect reached significance using Cox proportional hazards models. Overall, 7020 patients aged ≥18 years were treated with empagliflozin 10 mg (N = 2345), empagliflozin 25 mg (N = 2342), or placebo (N = 2333) once daily in addition to standard of care. Mean age (years ± SD) was 63.1 ± 8.6, and 72% were male. The benefit of empagliflozin on CV death first reached statistical significance on Day 59 (HR [95% confidence interval]) (0.28 [0.08, 0.96], P = 0.0424) and was generally sustained throughout the trial (overall 0.62 [0.49, 0.77], P < 0.0001). Risk reduction with empagliflozin on HHF reached statistical significance on Day 17 (0.10 [0.01, 0.87], P = 0.0372) and was sustained throughout the study (overall 0.65 [0.50, 0.85], P = 0.0017). For the composite outcome of CV death or HHF, risk reduction with empagliflozin reached statistical significance on Day 27 (0.28 [0.08, 0.97], P = 0.0445) and was sustained throughout follow-up (overall 0.66 [0.55, 0.79], P < 0.0001). Conclusions: In EMPA-REG OUTCOME, the benefit of empagliflozin in reducing the risk of HHF, CV death/ HHF, and CV death emerged within weeks after treatment initiation. The earliest benefit appears to be on HHF.

Keywords: Cardiovascular outcomes, empagliflozin, heart failure, type 2 diabetes.

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