Empagliflozin, a novel selective sodium glucose cotransporter‐2 (SGLT‐2) inhibitor: characterisation and comparison with other SGLT‐2 inhibitors

Empagliflozin is a potent and competitive SGLT-2 inhibitor with an excellent selectivity profile and the highest selectivity window of the tested SGLT-2 inhibitors over hSGLT-1. Empagliflozin represents an innovative therapeutic approach to treat diabetes.