Lipid Effects and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Associated with Glucose-Lowering Medications

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Stähli, Barbara E ^a   Gebhard, Catherine ^a   Tardif, Jean Claude ^a,b  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpha glucosidase inhibitors; Cardiovascular diseases; Diabetes; DPP 4 inhibitors; Glucagon like peptide 1 agonists; Glucose lowering medications; Insulin; Insulin secretagogues; Lipids; Metformin; SGLT2 inhibitors; Thiazolidinediones

Indexed keywords

ACARBOSE; ALEGLITAZAR; ALOGLIPTIN; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE INHIBITOR; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; BIGUANIDE DERIVATIVE; CANAGLIFLOZIN; DAPAGLIFLOZIN; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV INHIBITOR; ERTUGLIFLOZIN; GLITAZONE DERIVATIVE; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1 RECEPTOR AGONIST; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; METFORMIN; MIGLITOL; MURAGLITAZAR; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR AGONIST; PIOGLITAZONE; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT HUMAN INSULIN; ROSIGLITAZONE; SAXAGLIPTIN; SODIUM GLUCOSE COTRANSPORTER 2 INHIBITOR; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE; TESAGLITAZAR; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; VOGLIBOSE; LIPID;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG FATALITY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDEMA; EPIDEMIC; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; GLYCOSYLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLEIOTROPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT GAIN; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECTS; LIPID METABOLISM;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84930661190     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-015-0608-6     Document Type: Review

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