Patients with type 2 diabetes who received empagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, were nearly 40% less likely to have a kidney stone. Priyadarshini Balasubramanian, MD, presented the study as a poster at ENDO 2022: The Endocrine Society Annual Meeting. The investigators acknowledge that this was a retrospective post-hoc analysis and that urolithiasis. Patients with type 2 diabetes who received empagliflozin, a sodium glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitorwere almost 40% less likely to have a kidney stone than patients who received placebo during a median of 1.5 years of treatment. These findings come from a analysis of pooled data from clinical…
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