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Development Stage: advantage goes to Semaglutide
Hoagland, William, Anand Parekh, MD, Geoffrey St
How glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists work
Acknowledgments DJD is supported, in part, by a Banting and Best Diabetes CentreNovo Nordisk Chair in Incretin Biology, a Sinai HealthNovo Nordisk Foundation Fund in Regulatory Peptides, Canadian Institutes of Health Research grants 154321 and 19204, and Diabetes CanadaCanadian Cancer Society grant OG-3-24-5819-DD
The eligibility depends on BMI, comorbidities, and clinician assessment
Empagliflozin (or another SGLT2 inhibitor) This is a once-daily pill that works to support weight loss through the kidneys rather than gut hormones
