August 21, 2017. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued alerts for 2 sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors, canagliflozin and dapagliflozin, regarding an increased risk for acute kidney injury (AKI). In response, researchers evaluated data from 2 large health care utilization cohorts to assess the risk of AKI among patients with type 2 diabetes who use SGLT-2 inhibitors in a real-world setting. Researchers compared the incidence of AKI events over a median of 14 months between SGLT-2 inhibitor users and nonusers.