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Empagliflozin protects the heart against ischemia/reperfusion-induced sudden cardiac death.

Zhaoyang HuFeng JuLei DuGeoffrey W Abbott
Published in: Cardiovascular diabetology (2021)
Pretreatment with empagliflozin protects the heart from subsequent severe lethal ventricular arrhythmia induced by myocardial ischemia and reperfusion injury. These protective benefits may occur as a consequence of activation of the ERK1/2-dependent cell-survival signaling pathway in a glucose-independent manner.
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