SLC5A2 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Regarding kidney disease, three cardiovascular outcome trials in patients with T2DM, with or without prevalent CVD, showed that SGLT2 inhibitors might lower a composite of renal outcomes by 40–70%, including the requirement for dialysis and/or transplantation, the development of macroalbuminuria, the doubling of blood creatinine, and kidney mortality [8,163,182].