A recent review shows who newer medications for type 2 diabetes may help the most, particularly in reducing the risk of ...
SGLT2 inhibitors confer greater risk reductions for major adverse cardiovascular events in older adults with type 2 diabetes ...
GLP-1 receptor agonists were more cardioprotective in younger people, but reduced HbA1c more with age. The age of type 2 ...
Nephrologists jumped on the GLP-1 bandwagon well before Novo Nordisk won FDA approval for Ozempic in chronic kidney disease ...
The absolute risk for thyroid cancer is low among patients receiving glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) therapy.
The researchers found that both SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 agonists were associated with a lower risk of major cardiovascular events, but the drug effects varied with the patients’ age.
The authors used the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs databases to build a cohort of people with diabetes who initiated a GLP-1 RA and compared them to patients initiating sulfonylureas, dipeptidyl ...
Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist use is not associated with an increased risk for thyroid cancer over the short term.