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Impact of Dapagliflozin on Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Meta-analysis.
American Journal of Therapeutics
  • Ugochukwu O Egolum
  • Drew Cates, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Candis McGraw, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Hua Ling, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-28-2021
Abstract

The DAPA-HF trial1 demonstrated that dapagliflozin reduced the risk of worsening heart failure and death in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). In the EMPEROR-Reduced trial,2 empagliflozin also reduced the composite primary endpoint but failed to show any significant reduction of cardiac death or all-cause death. This may be explained by the fact that EMPEROR-Reduced was underpowered regarding cardiac death or all-cause death. A meta-analysis3 of these 2 trials revealed that the estimated treatment effect of cardiac death and all-cause death was modestly significant. In view of this, it would be necessary to revisit the mortality benefits of dapagliflozin, as DAPA-HF was not powered for the mortality endpoints either. Here, we undertook a meta-analysis of DAPAHF and the HFrEF subgroup of DECLARE-TIMI 584 to evaluate the mortality benefits of dapagliflozin in HFrEF patients.

PubMed ID
34117146
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This article was published in American Journal of Therapeutics.

The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1097/mjt.0000000000001354.

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Citation Information
Ugochukwu O Egolum, Drew Cates, Candis McGraw and Hua Ling. "Impact of Dapagliflozin on Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Meta-analysis." American Journal of Therapeutics (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hua-ling/55/