“…Another clinical study (Hattori 2011) revealed that 6 months of sitagliptin treatment lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure, blood glucose, C-reactive protein, soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 and UACR in patients with type 2 diabetes. In agreement with these findings, Sakata and coworkers (Sakata et al 2013) demonstrated that fasting blood glucose, HbAlc, circulating soluble form of RAGE and UACR were decreased after treatment with alogliptin for twelve weeks in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes. In addition, type 2 diabetic patients, treated with saxagliptin and followed for a median of 2.1 years, were significantly more likely than patients treated with placebo, to have a lower UACR (Scirica et al 2013).…”