Heart failure drug shows promise for Non-Diabetics
NCT ID NCT07112274
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This completed study tested whether empagliflozin, a diabetes drug, can improve heart structure and function in 50 non-diabetic patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Participants took either empagliflozin or a placebo daily. Researchers measured heart stress markers to see if the drug helps reduce cardiac remodeling.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- empagliflozin (10 mg tablet once daily)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could point toward a new treatment option for heart failure patients who are not diabetic, potentially improving heart function and quality of life.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed trial with only 50 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The study measured biomarkers, not long-term outcomes, so real-world benefits are uncertain.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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50 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2022
- Finished
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Jul 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inculsion 1. Cardiac patients who diagnosed with HFpEF, EF more than 50 %. 2. Patients should have basically normal liver and kidney functions, normal coagulation, and have no serious auditory, visual or central nervous system diseases. 3. Patients with no history of immune system disease. Exclusion 1. Patients with declined baseline creatinine clearance below 60 ml/min 2. Patients diagnosed with acute liver failure, AKI, hypoglycemia. 3. Allergy to the ingredients which will be used in this study 4. Patients with Diabetic ketoacidosis or non ketotic hyperosmolar hyperglycemia 5. Severe hepatic disease.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Rehab Hussein Werida
Damanhūr, Elbehairah, 31527, Egypt
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