In these cardiovascular safety trials, in secondary or exploratory analyses, GLP-1 receptor agonists were also shown to reduce macro-albuminuria, an accepted surrogate marker for diabetic kidney disease (DKD), a condition that still represents a major unmet medical need
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Researchers are studying whether its activity across these three receptors can reduce appetite, slow digestion, influence fat metabolism, and improve weight-related metabolic health more than older drugs that act on fewer pathways
Potential Risk of Thyroid Tumors Patients with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma or multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2 are expected to be contraindicated based on the drugs structural similarity to existing GLP-1 agents
But what was striking is the challenge, and this is one of the first important questions about, when you had the extended half-life of the first GLP-1 drug, that instead of having to take multiple times a day, you could actually, with liraglutide get to a point where you were starting to get to an extended half-life