Response to Comment on Gan et al. Efficacy of Modern Diabetes Treatments DPP-4i, SGLT-2i, and GLP-1RA in White and Asian Patients With Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Diabetes Care 2020;43:1948-1957.

We would like to thank Singh et al. (1) for their correspondence, which makes some important points regarding the prescribing of sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT-2i) and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) in Asian patients with type 2 diabetes. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the impact of ethnicity on the glucose-lowering efficacy of relatively newer antihyperglycemic agents SGLT-2i, GLP-1RA, and dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (DPP-4i) using previously published evidence from randomized clinical trials (2). Careful reading of our article will reveal that we do not compare the drugs, nor do we infer that one drug class is better than another, but …