As a first preventive approach, we sought to assess whether empagliflozin could alter the development of hepatic steatosis in SKO mice.Eight-week-old SKO mice and their littermates wild-type (WT) mice were fed either an empagliflozin-supplemented diet (100 mg/kg) or a control diet for 8 wk.The liver mass was increased by four-fold in 16-wk-old SKO mice as compared with WT mice, and empagliflozin treatment reduced liver mass (35%), triglyceride (TG) content (50%) and Oil Red O staining (Figure 1A-C).Consistently, the mRNA levels of the lipid dropletassocd. protein Adrp, a marker of liver steatosis, were increased by three-fold in SKO mice compared with WT mice but were reduced by empagliflozin (Figure 1D).To understand further how empagliflozin limited liver steatosis development in SKO mice, we measured the mRNA levels of three main actors of de novo lipogenesis: Acly, Acc and Fas.MRNA levels of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha target genes involved in fatty acid utilization, such as Cpt1, Acot2 and Pdk4, were increased in SKO mice, empagliflozin had no addnl. effect (Figure 1J-L).Empagliflozin reduced glycemia (Figure S2C) without altering insulinemia or insulin sensitivity (Figure S2D,E). Empagliflozin treatment reduced liver mass by 19% and liver TG by 26% (Figure 2A-C).The empagliflozin significantly reduced mRNA levels of Adrp but not Mcp1 or Col1a1, suggesting a primary action on liver steatosis rather than on inflammation or fibrosis.Overall, these data showed that empagliflozin was able to improve established liver steatosis in older SKO mice and that this was still associated with a decrease in lipogenic gene expression.