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Rationale, Design for the ASSET Study: A Prospective Randomized Study Comparing Empagliflozin’s Effect to Sitagliptin on Cardiac Fat Accumulation/Function in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

INTRODUCTION: Ectopic fat accumulation has been found to play a pathophysiological role in insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes (T2DM), and coronary artery diseases. Findings from a number of previous studies suggest that sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors reduce lipid accumulation, in...

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Autores principales: Shigiyama, Fumika, Hiruma, Shigenori, Hisatake, Shinji, Shiraga, Nobuyuki, Ikeda, Takanori, Hirose, Takahisa, Kumashiro, Naoki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31172455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13300-019-0640-4