Most patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) do not reach the blood glucose goal with treatment of insulin. In our research, we intended to estimate the therapeutic effect and safety of additional different doses of dapagliflozin on insulin treatment in T1DM.
We performed direct and indirect network meta-analysis using Bayesian models and graded different dosages of dapagliflozin by mixed therapy contrasts. We retrieved information from the PubMed, Embase, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China Biology Medicine (CBM) disc, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang Data, and WEIPU Data. Our research included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) including T1DM treated with insulin and additional dapagliflozin 5 mg or dapagliflozin 10 mg from January 2012 to June 2021. Thirteen RCTs with 10,701 participants were divided into three groups as below: insulin alone, dapagliflozin 5 mg + insulin, and dapagliflozin 10 mg + insulin.
Dapagliflozin dose-dependently exhibited reductions in glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), total insulin daily dose (TDD), and body weight. Neither dapagliflozin 5 mg nor 10 mg could induce hypoglycemia or severe hypoglycemia. However, both doses of dapagliflozin increased the incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and genital infection.
Dapagliflozin 10 mg could achieve a better outcome in efficacy and could not increase the risk of hypoglycemia. Although it may induce a higher risk of DKA and genital infection, there was no significant difference between dapagliflozin 10 mg and 5 mg. Our outcomes indicate that dapagliflozin 10mg has a high reliability of being graded prior as a supplementary treatment to insulin in T1DM.