Clinical trial NCT04203927: Effects of Empagliflozin on Cardiac Microvasculature and Insulin Sensitivity in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes
Official title: Effects of Empagliflozin on Cardiac Microvasculature and Insulin Sensitivity in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: EARLY_PHASE1
Conditions: Type2 Diabetes
Insulin Sensitivity
Lead sponsor: University of Virginia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
First posted: 2019-12-18
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: The aim is to test in T2DM patients, whether, compared to placebo, 12 weeks of SGLT-2 inhibitor improves post-absorptive, post-insulin infusion or postprandial insulin action to enhance Cardiac Muscle vascular function and whether changes correlate with improved GV or postprandial hyperglycemia

Detailed description: The investigators will study 32 T2DM subjects measuring cardiac muscle vascular function before and after a 4 hour insulin clamp ( protocol A) and before and after a mixed meal (protocol B). Then subjects will be randomized into 2 groups: Group 1 will undergo a 12 week intervention of Empagliflozin, and Group 2 will do 12 weeks of Placebo. The intervention will be single blinded. At the end of the 12 week intervention subjects will repeat protocol A and B.

The study's primary objective is to assess whether, compared to placebo, 12 weeks of Empagliflozin improves post-absorptive or postprandial insulin action to enhance myocardial perfusion (MP) and whether changes of MP correlate with improved glucose variability or postprandial hyperglycemia

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* A1C \> 6.5 and \<9%
* Never on SGLT-2i (eg: Jardiance, Invokana, Farxiga, Steglatro)
* On stable dose of oral hypoglycemic agents \>3 months
* On stable dose of other medications for \>3 months
* BMI-\<35

Exclusion Criteria:

* • Smoking presently or in the past 6 months

  * Taking insulin
  * BP \>160/90
  * BMI \>35
  * History of congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease, severe pulmonary disease, liver or kidney disease.
  * Any vascular disease such as myocardial infarction, stroke, peripheral vascular disease
  * History of cancer or psychiatric disease
  * Presence of an intracardiac or intrapulmonary shunt (we will screen for this by auscultation during the physical exam by PI).
  * Pregnant or breastfeeding.
  * Known hypersensitivity to perflutren (contained in Definity)
  * Screening O2 saturation \<90%
  * History of recurrent UTI/bladder/kidney infections-eGFR is below 45 mL/min/1.73.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Myocardial microvascular perfusion
timeFrame: Between baseline and 12 weeks treatment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Flow Mediated Dilation (FMD) Vascular measure of conduit artery stiffness Change in Flow Mediated Dilation (FMD) between baseline and after 2 hour insulin clamp Vascular measure of conduit artery stiffness Flow Mediated Dilation ( FMD)
timeFrame: Between baseline and 12 weeks of treatment.
measure: Augmentation Index ( AI)
timeFrame: Between baseline and 12 weeks of treatment.
measure: Pulse Wave Velocity ( PWV)
timeFrame: Between baseline and 12 weeks of treatment
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Charlottesville
country: United States
facility: University of Virginia
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Virginia
name: Eugene J Barrett, MD PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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