Tomoya Mita, Naoto Katakami, Hidenori Yoshii, Tomio Onuma, Hideaki Kaneto, Takeshi Osonoi, Toshihiko Shiraiwa, Keisuke Kosugi, Yutaka Umayahara, Tsunehiko Yamamoto, Hiroki Yokoyama, Nobuichi Kuribayashi, Hideaki Jinnouchi, Masahiko Gosho, Iichiro Shimomura, Hirotaka Watada
OBJECTIVE: Recent experimental studies have shown that dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitors have antiatherosclerotic benefits in glucagon-like peptide 1-dependent and -independent manners. The current study investigated the effects of alogliptin, a DPP-4 inhibitor, on the progression of carotid atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This prospective, randomized, open-label, blinded-end point, multicenter, parallel-group, comparative study included 341 patients with T2DM free of a history of apparent cardiovascular diseases recruited at 11 clinical units and randomly allocated to treatment with alogliptin (n = 172) or conventional treatment (n = 169)...
January 2016: Diabetes Care