Bladder cancer in the EMPA-REG OUTCOME trial
Bibliographic record
Abstract
SGLT2 Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2To the Editor: We read with interest the recently published article in Diabetologia by Tang et al on the risk of cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors [1].We agree with their conclusion that treatment with SGLT2 inhibitors is not associated with a significantly increased risk of cancer.In their analysis of specific cancer types, the authors suggest that SGLT2 inhibitors may be associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer.With respect to empagliflozin, the authors report that the cardiovascular outcomes trial, EMPA-REG OUTCOME, conducted in individuals with type 2 diabetes and established cardiovascular disease, contributed over 50% of individuals and events to their analysis of bladder cancer.We would like to draw attention to data from this trial
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.031 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.014 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".