Javed Butler, W Schuyler Jones, Jacob A Udell, Stefan D Anker, Mark C Petrie, Josephine Harrington, Michaela Mattheus, Isabella Zwiener, Offer Amir, M Cecilia Bahit, Johann Bauersachs, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Yundai Chen, Vijay K Chopra, Gemma Figtree, Junbo Ge, Shaun G Goodman, Nina Gotcheva, Shinya Goto, Tomasz Gasior, Waheed Jamal, James L Januzzi, Myung Ho Jeong, Yuri Lopatin, Renato D Lopes, Béla Merkely, Puja B Parikh, Alexander Parkhomenko, Piotr Ponikowski, Xavier Rossello, Morten Schou, Dragan Simic, P Gabriel Steg, Joanna Szachniewicz, Peter van der Meer, Dragos Vinereanu, Shelley Zieroth, Martina Brueckmann, Mikhail Sumin, Deepak L Bhatt, Adrian F Hernandez
BACKGROUND: Empagliflozin improves cardiovascular outcomes in patients with heart failure, patients with type 2 diabetes who are at high cardiovascular risk, and patients with chronic kidney disease. The safety and efficacy of empagliflozin in patients who have had acute myocardial infarction are unknown. METHODS: In this event-driven, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, we assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients who had been hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction and were at risk for heart failure to receive empagliflozin at a dose of 10 mg daily or placebo in addition to standard care within 14 days after admission...
April 6, 2024: New England Journal of Medicine