The UTOPIA study, a prospective, randomized, open-label, parallel-design trial performed in 340 subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and no history of CV disease, investigated whether tofogliflozin has favorable effects on cIMT compared to conventional treatment using drugs other than SGLT2-is (Katakami et al., 2020). This evidence concerns the gene SLC5A2 and type 2 diabetes mellitus.