A prespecified analysis of the SELECT trial reports semaglutide produced a mean weight reduction of 10.2 percent versus 1.5 percent for placebo, sustained over four years in adults with cardiovascular disease and obesity but without diabetes. PICO summary and expert commentary.
Browsing: Metabolism
Obesity and weight management, metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, MASLD/fatty liver, and nutrition and lifestyle evidence.
A prespecified secondary analysis of the STEP-HFpEF programme found that semaglutide 2.4 mg lowered NT-proBNP and produced larger health-status gains in patients with higher baseline NT-proBNP. PICO summary and expert commentary.
A post hoc analysis testing whether machine-learning digital pathology reproduces pathologist scoring of liver biopsies in a phase II semaglutide NASH trial. PICO summary and expert commentary.
Prespecified secondary analysis of the pooled STEP-HFpEF trials finds semaglutide 2.4 mg improves heart failure symptoms similarly in women and men, with greater weight loss in women. PICO summary and expert commentary.
A prespecified analysis of the SELECT trial shows once-weekly semaglutide produced a placebo-subtracted weight reduction of 10.2% sustained to 208 weeks in adults with cardiovascular disease and overweight or obesity but without diabetes. PICO summary and expert commentary.
A pre-specified analysis of the SELECT trial assessing whether once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg improves kidney outcomes in adults with overweight or obesity and cardiovascular disease, without diabetes. PICO summary and expert commentary.
A prespecified secondary analysis of the STEP-HFpEF programme found that once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg lowered NT-proBNP and produced larger symptom gains in patients with higher baseline NT-proBNP. PICO summary and expert commentary.
A published study protocol for a 52-week double-blind randomised trial of semaglutide plus empagliflozin versus each drug alone for NAFLD in type 2 diabetes. No efficacy results are reported yet. PICO summary and expert commentary.
Pooled analysis of the STEP-HFpEF and STEP-HFpEF DM trials of semaglutide 2.4 mg in obesity-related HFpEF, with PICO summary and expert commentary.
Design and baseline characteristics of the phase 3 ESSENCE trial of weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg in 800 participants with biopsy-proven MASH and fibrosis stage 2 or 3, with no efficacy results reported yet. PICO summary and expert commentary.