Heart rate secrets: new study tracks diabetes Drug's hidden effects
NCT ID NCT07471802
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Sep 04, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study monitors heart rate variability in 150 adults with type 2 diabetes who also have heart failure, chronic kidney disease, or both. Participants will wear a 24-hour heart monitor before and after starting a standard SGLT2 inhibitor medication. The goal is to understand how this drug affects the balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, which may explain its heart and kidney benefits.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 150 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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May 2026
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2031
An estimate. End dates often move.
- 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.
Who is studied
Outpatient patients with: * Type 2 DM, with or without heart failure and/or chronic kidney disease, with a clinical indication to undergo HOLTER ECG monitoring to exclude or quantify concomitant autonomic dysfunction. * Patients with Cardiomyopathy, with heart failure or cardiorenal syndrome, with a cardiological indication to undergo HOLTER ECG monitoring to exclude or quantify signs attributable to ischemic heart disease and/or cardiac arrhythmias.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- 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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Inclusion Criteria: * Age over 18 years; * Signed informed consent; * in Sinus rhythm; * Patients for whom HOLTER ECG monitoring is clinically indicated, to early identify the possible onset or progression of diabetic autonomic neuropathy, or ischemic changes, or potentially arrhythmogenic electrophysiological alterations; * On optimized pharmacological treatment according to clinical practice, naïve to SGLT2 inhibitor therapy, prescribed according to the (1A) recommendations of the ESC 2023 guidelines. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with atrial fibrillation or other arrhythmic burden incompatible with accurate HRV analysis; * Pacemaker or ICD carriers; * Immunodeficient patients or patients at risk of developing infections.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, IRCCS
Roma, 00168, Italy
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