Dr. Marc Pfeffer (Boston, MA, USA) discusses how insights on the effect of antidiabetic drugs on CV outcomes has evolved over time, culminating in the benefit seen with empagliflozin on mortality and on heart failure. The latter benefit deserves more attention.

Educational information

Brigham and Women’s Transatlantic Dialogues on Controversies in Contemporary Cardiology

This lecture is part of a special educational symposium exploring controversies in cardiovascular risk management and compared and contrasted best common practices and guidelines on both sides of the Atlantic. American and European experts discussed novel insights from basic and translational cardiovascular science in the context of ongoing and future clinical studies

The program is an initiative of research leaders from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA in collaboration with the PACE foundation.

Disclosures

Marc A Pfeffer, MD - Victor J. Dzau Professor of Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Faculty did not receive an honorarium for their lectures