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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LonelyFatGuy" data-source="post: 2751088" data-attributes="member: 553038">Why are you offering a quote about Dapagliflozin when we're talking about Empagliflozin...?Look at the table in <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6448940/" target="_blank">this article</a>.  Compare the number of bladder cancer cases in the placebo group with the 25mg Empagliflozin group.  (3 versus 8...    5 versus 9...    4 versus 7...)  It's nearly double each time.But yet they go on to (attempt to) conclude that:  "Based on the totality of the data, no imbalance in bladder cancer cases between empagliflozin and placebo were observed in the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial."Now... note that the original trial where all those bladder cancer instances were observed, and this subsequent article trying to explain it all away, were both courtesy of Boehringer Ingelheim, the makers of Jardiance...</blockquote>

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