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Editorial| Volume 98, Piii-ix, September 2019

Effects of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease/non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: Ex quo et quo vadimus?

      In this issue of Metabolism, Omori et al [
      • Omori K.
      • Nakamura A.
      • Miyoshi H.
      • Takahashi K.
      • Kitao N.
      Nomoto H, et al.
      ] report that dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitor (SGLT2i), prevents hepatic steatosis (assessed by triglyceride liver content) after 8 weeks of administration in db/db mice, a mouse model of obesity and diabetes.
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