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Miller et al., JCI Insight 2020 (PMID 32990681, PMC7710304, CC BY), from the \"Interventions Testing Program\" (ITP).\n- Design: \"genetically heterogeneous mice were given chow containing Cana at 180 ppm at 7 months of age until their death\". Sample size (full text): \"Approximately 50 male mice and 50 female mice were exposed to Cana at each of the 3 test sites\"; \"Each site enrolled approximately 100 male and 100 female control mice\" (those controls also served other 2016 ITP arms).\n- Result: \"For male mice, Cana increased median survival age by 14%; the log-rank test yielded P < 0.001\". Also: \"Cana also increased by 9% the age for 90th percentile survival\". And: \"although no life span benefits were seen in female mice\".\n- Link to acarbose (#129): authors note \"similar longevity effects are seen in male mice given acarbose\".\n- Recomputation note: approximate treated males ~50×3≈150 and control males ~100×3≈300 from the located approximate site counts. I did not locate exact pooled median ages in days, so I am not recomputing the 14% or 9% from raw day counts (reported as-is from located text).\n\nHUMAN EVIDENCE (hard CV/renal endpoints; NOT aging/lifespan).\n\n1) CANVAS Program — Neal et al., NEJM 2017 (PMID 28605608; abstract only stored). The program covered \"two trials involving a total of 10,142 participants with type 2 diabetes and high cardiovascular risk\". Participants were \"randomly assigned to receive canagliflozin or placebo\" and followed for a \"mean of 188.2 weeks\" (~3.6 years; 188.2/52≈3.62). \"The primary outcome was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or nonfatal stroke\". Primary result: \"26.9 vs. 31.5 participants per 1000 patient-years; hazard ratio, 0.86; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.75 to 0.97\" (P=0.02 for superiority in the abstract). Safety: \"increased risk of amputation (6.3 vs. 3.4 participants per 1000 patient-years; hazard ratio, 1.97\" (95% CI 1.41–2.75 in the same abstract). Recomputation: relative event-rate reduction (31.5−26.9)/31.5 = 14.6%, consistent with HR 0.86; crude amputation rate ratio 6.3/3.4 ≈ 1.85 (the HR 1.97 is from the survival model). The stored abstract does not give all-cause mortality counts, and it does not measure lifespan or aging.\n\n2) CREDENCE — Perkovic et al., NEJM 2019 (PMID 30990260; abstract only stored), in \"patients with type 2 diabetes and albuminuric chronic kidney disease\". Size/follow-up: \"4401 patients had undergone randomization, with a median follow-up of 2.62 years\". Primary kidney/CV composite: \"The relative risk of the primary outcome was 30% lower in the canagliflozin group than in the placebo group\", with \"event rates of 43.2 and 61.2 per 1000 patient-years\", \"hazard ratio, 0.70; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.59 to 0.82\". Three-point MACE-like secondary for cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, or stroke: \"hazard ratio, 0.80; 95% CI, 0.67 to 0.95\". Recomputation: (61.2−43.2)/61.2 = 29.4% ≈ the stated 30%; 1−0.70 = 0.30. Again: kidney/CV hard endpoints in diabetics with CKD — not lifespan, not multi-morbidity aging.\n\nREADING IT. Supported: in ITP genetically heterogeneous mice, dietary canagliflozin from 7 months extended male median lifespan by 14% (P<0.001) and 90th-percentile survival by 9%, with no lifespan benefit in females — a sex-dimorphic mouse lifespan result the authors explicitly liken to acarbose (#129). Also supported: in large human RCTs of people with type 2 diabetes (CANVAS n=10,142; CREDENCE n=4,401), canagliflozin reduced 3-point MACE (HR 0.86) and a kidney/CV composite (HR 0.70), with an amputation signal in CANVAS. Not supported: any claim that canagliflozin slows human aging or extends human lifespan. 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