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Letter to the Editor

Does a gluten-free diet determine the efficacy of sotagliflozin in patients with concomitant type 1 diabetes mellitus and celiac disease?

Dimitrios Ioannis Patoulias
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Petros Keryttopoulos

Gastroenterology Rev 2018; 13 (3): 249–250
Online publish date: 2018/09/17
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Sodium glucose-cotransporter type 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors constitute a novel class of antidiabetics, approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. There are sufficient data regarding their contribution to significant improvement in the major cardiometabolic parameters (HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose, blood pressure, lipid profile, body weight), with promising results in cardiovascular and diabetic kidney disease [1–4].
Their insulin-independent mechanism of action makes them an attractive and promising treatment option in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, as an adjunct therapy to insulin. Sodium glucose-cotransporter type 2 inhibitors provide significant improvement in two main adverse effects of insulin, namely hypoglycaemic events and weight gain; thus, the discussion on their use in those patients is ongoing.
Sotagliflozin, a dual SGLT1/SGLT2 inhibitor, acts as a glucagon-like peptide 1 secretagogue, as well. The latter makes sotagliflozin an interesting therapeutic option in diabetic patients [5].
Garg et al. reported significant clinical benefits of sotagliflozin when added to insulin in patients with type 1 diabetes, namely improved glycaemic control, along with weight reduction and blood pressure lowering effects, results similar to those provided by Sands et al., despite the substantial differences in the number of involved patients and the short-term evaluation of the efficacy of sotagliflozin [6, 7]. W
e would like to draw attention to a specific point. It is well established that type 1 diabetes and celiac disease share common alleles, leading to frequent concomitance of the two diseases, both in youths and adults [8, 9]. Based on the fact that SGLT1 expression has been shown to be absent in patients with untreated celiac disease, normalising after initiation of a gluten-free diet for at least 12 months, it seems reasonable that sotagliflozin, a dual SGLT1/SGLT2 inhibitor, may provide significant therapeutic results in patients with concomitant type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, along with appropriate dietary modification [10].
In other words, sotagliflozin is expected to act only through SGLT2 inhibition in those patients with untreated celiac disease, leading to insufficient glycaemic control. Thus, it is deduced that in patients following a gluten free diet, sotagliflozin will inhibit both SGLT1 and SGLT2 inhibitors, maximizing its glucose lowering properties. Another question that arises is...


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