[New outcome studies with injectable semaglutide in different at risk populations].

Abstract

Injectable semaglutide at a dose of 1 mg once weekly has been shown to be the most efficacious glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist when considering both the improvement in blood glucose control and the reduction in body weight in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). After the SUSTAIN-6 study, published in 2016, which demonstrated not only the good safety but also already the cardiovascular (CV) efficacy of semaglutide in patients with T2D and high CV risk, several large placebo-controlled randomised trials have confirmed improved prognosis with semaglutide in different at risk populations : patients with T2D and chronic kidney disease (FLOW trial), subjects with obesity and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, with or without T2D (STEP-HFpEF trial) and people with overweight or obesity (but without T2D) and a confirmed atheromatous cardiovascular disease (SELECT trial). Studies performed in patients with obesity used a higher dose of 2.4 mg/week. These positive results, based upon major clinically relevant outcomes, extend the therapeutic possibilities with semaglutide among at high risk patients of cardiovascular and/or renal diseases.